Word: cutthroats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Confronted by such cutthroat competition, McDonnell Douglas has discussed making a truce with Airbus several times during the past few years. The American company suggested that the competitors form a joint venture to build long-range jets together and thus combine forces against Boeing. Says McDonnell Douglas' Worsham: "Instead of being lean dogs fighting for the same piece of meat, we could strengthen ourselves with cooperation." So far, though, Airbus has declined the offer...
Rules vary from league to league, but basically each team starts the season with a set limit of real dollars (in the American Dreams, $260) with which to assemble an imaginary team of 23 real major leaguers, hired at a cutthroat auction that is equal parts puzzle and poker game. Up to 13 players can be held over from the previous year; the rest are purchased on draft day. The players -- nine pitchers, six infielders, five outfielders, two catchers and a designated hitter -- compete, in aggregate, in eight statistical categories over the course of the 162-game regular season...
...Some of the firms are really cutthroat," Moore adds. "I don't feel that I have to work somewhere where my performances are being evaluated and measured constantly against some artificial standard...
...baby boomers have jostled through life competing for education, jobs, housing. When the baby-bust generation enters adulthood, however, it may discover the benefits of doing without: without as much unemployment, without as much demand for housing or cutthroat competition for good jobs, possibly even without as much crime. But the labor force, which will grow at a slower pace, may also find itself without the ability to sustain U.S. economic expansion or support an increasingly elderly population. "Business is going to be discombobulated," says Demographics Analyst Ben Wattenberg of the American Enterprise Institute. "I see the housing industry tearing...
...Mart and Waldenbooks had taken an unfair lead on competitors by putting the popularly priced ($29.95) Paramount blockbuster on sale as much as a week before its official release date. The chain stores denied purposely jumping the start, but irate competitors consider the episode just another example of the cutthroat tactics that are sweeping the home-video business (estimated 1986 sales: $7.2 billion...