Word: cutthroat
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...their own prices to meet the Soviet competition, regardless of the shrieks of anger from the Middle East Arab producing lands, which suffer losses of revenue every time the price goes down. Arab opinion, in fact, is one reason why Russia selects only certain key targets for its cutthroat dumping, elsewhere keeps its price only slightly lower than the going rate...
...Westinghouse, to plead for mercy. His client, said the lawyer, while Chiles bowed his head, was a vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church in Sharon, Pa. and a benefactor of charities for crippled children and cancer victims. "These men," the lawyer pleaded, "are not grasping, greedy, cutthroat competitors...
...said O'Day, the first ten boats would round a given mark within ten seconds of each other. He remarked that a Bahaman had told him it "was the first place he had ever been where you had to be an expert to lose." It was, he said, a cutthroat competition...
...Leadership" Sir: You have done a useful service for civil aviation in this country by calling attention to the statesmanship of CAB Chairman Whitney Gillilland in specifying to the Defense Department that Military Air Transport traffic move over the certificated airlines at tariff rates, eliminating the ruinous practice of cutthroat bidding [July 18]. Only with this type of courageous leadership can the CAB fulfill its responsibility for developing an economically sound airlines system with the health and vigor to serve the country's civil and military needs...
Paternalism to Philanthropy. As a young businessman, J.D.R. Jr. (as he afterward styled himself-although no one outside the family circle ever addressed him as anything but Mr. Rockefeller) began to show a humanitarianism and sense of managerial responsibility that were new in the cutthroat, turn-of-the-century world of high finance. Accompanied by W. L. Mackenzie King, a bright young labor-relations specialist (later the longtime Prime Minister of Canada), he visited the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. after a bloody and bitter strike, came away with a strong sympathy for the laboring man and a distaste for company...