Word: cutthroats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Competition among arms exporters is often cutthroat. Secrecy and deception become second nature as some weapons salesmen, in ways that seem to have more in common with international espionage than commerce, try to embarrass, discredit and even blackmail their competition...
...goal of competing internationally was reached, yet for juniors Larry Poos and Dave Keefe, the English attitude towards rowing was the most beneficial part of the trip. Skillful yet not exhaustive, and competitive yet not cutthroat was how they described their spirit...
...sailboat man dreams at some time of cruising across the Pacific, running for days under warm breezes, dropping anchor for weeks at islands with names like Raratonga. Citybound mariners mostly learn to content themselves with a few weeks' cruising on inland waters or slashing around the markers in cutthroat weekend races. But young John Lipscomb, 18, and his father James, a writer and first-rate cinematographer (Blue Water, White Death), realized the total dream. James Lipscomb was able to sell the idea of a film about such a voyage. As a result, Son John became skipper...
...collapse came as no surprise to financial experts. The British travel industry has been plagued by undersecured operators, perilously narrow profit margins and cutthroat price competition. In the past five years, 44 firms have folded and many others are in trouble. Last week the collapse of the Tabberer Agency in Birmingham left 800 Britons stranded in Canada...
...This atmosphere of opportunistic expediency does not augur well for the medical profession," says Frederick Hofmann, head of admissions at Columbia's medical school. He is right. Cutthroat medical students could well make cutthroat physicians...