Word: cutthroats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only university graduates and those about to receive degrees are eligible, and competition is almost literally cutthroat for spots on the national dailies: Asahi (circ. 6,000,000), Yomiuri (5,800,000), Mainichi (4,700,000), Sankei (1,900,000) and Nihon Keizai (1,400,000). Disappointed candidates have been known to commit suicide...
Even more significant were Kefauver's efforts as chairman of the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee. He was a determined foe of economic concentration in American business, and small businessmen facing cutthroat competition from large corporations saw Kefauver as a savior. He exposed industry's concept of "administered prices" which ignored price competition in favor of increased profit. Kefauver also led the fight to reform the drug industry and drafted stiff legislation just before the tragic dimensions of the thalidomide disaster became known...
...Cutthroat newspaper competition is on the wane in most U.S. cities, but not in Boston. The big daily papers, the Globe, the Herald Traveler, and the Record American, are not scrapping. But two small weeklies that feature radical politics, rock-music and movie reviews, plus gamy classified ads, are presently engaged in a fierce-and profitable-battle for readers and revenues. Moreover, their hard-digging reporting is beginning to stir up the downtown dailies as well...
...Broadway decided otherwise. Through no fault of the author, his first effort (Saturday Night) expired along with its producer. For a time, Stephen knocked out scripts for the television sitcom Topper and honed his skills as an amateur gamesman. Sondheim is one of the world's fastest cutthroat anagram players, and the walls of his Manhattan town house are covered with antique game boards. (Between shows, he used to concoct the tantalizing puzzles on the back pages of New York magazine.) Thanks to the theatrical interests of his mother, an interior decorator known to friends as "Foxy," Stephen easily became...
Currently, Indians in New Mexico, Montana and California are locked in battles with various Government agencies for control of land and water. The Paiutes of western Nevada have watched their emerald-green Pyramid Lake, ancient source of their cutthroat trout, shrink to one-third its former size by various water-diversion projects. The lake's ecological balance has been destroyed, and most of the fish have died...