Word: cutthroats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breed of coin-operated games that use sophisticated electronic technology to simulate everything from playing table tennis to driving a race car. Besides giving birth to a nationwide fad, the games have also revived the sagging coin-game industry, boosting its revenues and ushering in a new era of cutthroat competition between manufacturers...
Since all pre-meds meet each other in head-to-head competition in those five courses, they can become real cutthroat experiences. Even after discounting stories of pre-meds sabotaging each other's labs, the degree of competition and amount of emotion involved in the courses is apalling...
...they happen to strike the reader in the right mood. Well and good, but Fraser had better not rest on his laurels. American Flashmaniacs can hardly be expected to wait much longer for him to come across with the great man's oft-hinted-at memories of cutthroat days at Little Big Horn and gunfights with Kit Carson. Ray Sokolov
...talks country and plays cutthroat, so the last contest of the Las Vegas marathon is his kind of game...
...stated objective of the Council is the lessening of cutthroat competition among the societies and the provision of a minimum amount of security for each. At full strength, the societies flood the market; still, no one is willing to put a halt to freedom of entry. "We can't limit the market" Epps said. "It would be unfair to those interested in organizing a society. We'd rather not regulate too closely...