Word: cutthroats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treasury. In practice, the arrangement would work like the long-successful sugar quota system, which guarantees producing nations specific shares of U.S. sugar imports each year. By assigning each coffee country a sure market for a set amount of coffee, the quotas should discourage the present wild overproduction and cutthroat competition among the surplus-ridden growers...
Sheer lack of sophistication is evidenced by the argument that the CDF-run MeBAC would represent "unfair competition" to independent drama groups, apparently on the theory that all the arts are in constant cutthroat competition and that a customer for one theatre is a customer lost to another. We are sure the CRIMSON does not seriously think that the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums subtract their visitors from the sum-total of gallery-goers, or that someone who buys a ticket for the Budapest String Quartet will not patronize the Boston Opera Group...
...industry has no real giants to set the pace in modernization. The largest textile company, Burlington Mills (fiscal 1958 sales: $651 million), has only 5% of the industry sales. All the manufacturers are fiercely independent, have never joined in an intelligent drive to promote textile sales. Competition is so cutthroat that wholesale textile and apparel prices are only 93% of 1947-49 level, while other wholesale industrial prices stand...
...infancy, was "not a good game for the club cardroom" because "coordination between two partners is very necessary" and "not always easily obtained." Nearly all experts agree that bidding is the really important and difficult part of bridge. And even Goren's bitterest enemies in the cutthroat world of professional bridge admit that he is an alltime great bidder...
...More often than not they cannot operate except by turning themselves into cut-rate, fly-by-night carriers along the lines of the first postwar U.S. nonsked airlines. Usually, they do not pose a competitive threat to well-established lines, but in Latin America they have made flying a cutthroat business (TIME...