Word: cutthroat
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...after the dinner hour, we hear all about underarm deodorants, bad breath, dentures. It's disgusting. There is an easy way to make it on TV-you learn their ten commandments, which start with Thou shalt kill,' 'Thou shalt lie,' 'Thou shalt be a cutthroat...
...world's biggest exporter of cotton goods, its cotton-spinning industry has been declining steadily for a decade. Stepped-up international competition, notably from the U.S., Britain and West Germany, has cut Japan's share of the world market from 30% in 1955 to 22% last year. Cutthroat rivalry at home has helped shave profit margins from an average of 8% ten years ago to barely 1.4% today. All the while, the rapid rise of synthetic fibers has done much to dampen world demand for cottons...
...into soaring land prices, a tangle of zoning laws and the threat of government control over the number of stations they can own. Dozens of small independents have sprung up to plague the majors, buying gas cheaply from Continental refineries and then undercutting prices. Britain has been witnessing a cutthroat gas war for months, and last week it chalked up the first major casualty. Italy's state-owned ENI oil combine sold to British Esso its chain of 73 British stations and 40 new sites...
Even more than other big aluminum makers, Alcoa needs new customers. Confronted since 1957 by industry overexpansion, sagging prices for ingots and cutthroat competition in the less profitable fabricating field, it has lost part of its share of the market to new companies, has also been through a profit wringer. From a peak of $89.6 million in 1956, Alcoa's net income slid to $40 million in 1960. It has not yet fully recovered, though last year's earnings of $60.8 million (on a record $1 billion in sales) were the best since 1957, and first-quarter sales...
After making some $5,000,000 in 32 months in the cutthroat movie industry, Kennedy pulled out; he also bearishly pulled out of the stock market in time to save his fortune from the 1929 crash. Fearing revolution and contemptuous of his fellow capitalists for not foreseeing the crash, Kennedy became an early, enthusiastic supporter of his old antagonist Franklin D. Roosevelt. He worked hard on William Randolph Hearst, who controlled the California delegation. Hearst finally came around, and Kennedy liked to boast that he was responsible, "though you don't find any mention of it in history books...