Word: cutthroats
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...It’s a cutthroat world with postering,” explains Ashley P. Horan ’05, ex-president and current member of On Thin Ice (OTI), the improv group. She deems the current state of affairs “a very serious situation.” Her group has been subject to potential fines and possible foul play over the issue. Once, says Horan, OTI postered “on a sandwich board that we had not reserved…someone, like in the Krokodiloes perhaps, reported us” (when questioned, David A. Eisenberg...
Blue Truth, Red Truth The left and the right are in a cutthroat battle to assert their own versions of reality...
...workers, and provided pensions, health care and education benefits long before they were the norm. Employees even received an allowance of free beer. "That aspect is gone - the caring, sharing company," says Glennon wistfully. "Everyone knows that you're just part of a multinational." Maybe so, but in the cutthroat environment of today's beer market, being part of a multinational is all but essential. Most Western beer markets are flat - Guinness sales in Ireland fell 6% by volume from June 2003 to June 2004 - and more and more breweries are being snapped up by behemoths like London-based SABMiller...
...Beginning in the 1980s, LG sold cheap TVs under the brand Goldstar, after the company's former name, Lucky-Goldstar. In 1995, LG purchased American TV maker Zenith Electronics Corp. and began using that moniker on its products. But four years later, Zenith filed for bankruptcy, a victim of cutthroat competition. To avoid a repeat of that failure, LG was content until recently to supply other companies with appliances that they sell in the U.S. under their own brands. These days, however, a monumental transition is taking place in U.S. and European living rooms, and LG smells opportunity. Consumers...
...SETUP Pretty songbird Mimi is plucked from an Ohio-based go-nowhere girl group by Lamont Jackson, music impresario extraordinaire. Lamont, who's filthy rich and something of a control freak, grooms Mimi for pop stardom--this book is makeover heaven--and introduces her to life in the cutthroat, Cristal-quaffing world of Manhattan's high-rolling hip-hoperati. Mimi starts out a hick but learns fast. Kennedy knows whereof she writes: she used to roll with Russell Simmons' posse, so she's been in all those clubs that would never...