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...upstarts like Geely and Chery, it's a formidable task to pierce the cutthroat U.S. market, in which only a handful of sophisticated players (Honda, Toyota, BMW) consistently post profits. Geely was founded as a maker of refrigerators in 1986 and shifted to cars in 1998; Chery launched its first model in 2000. And although Chinese vehicle quality is improving, it lags Western standards by wide margins. Chery's QQ model, for instance, had an average 391 problems per 100 vehicles, according to J.D. Power's latest initial-quality survey. For U.S. models, the average is 118. Chinese manufacturers must...
...Chinatown bus business in New York City is a rough-and-tumble one, featuring supercheap fares along the Eastern seaboard, erratic schedules and cutthroat competition. But it got out of hand one night in May 2003. In the shadow of the Manhattan Bridge, a Dragon Coach bus company driver named De Jian Chen, reportedly caught in the middle of a murky feud with another outfit, was shot dead...
...word came to hundreds of manufacturers via a seven-page letter authored by Gordon "Grubby" Clark, the 72-year-old co-inventor of the foam board and cutthroat founder of the Orange County, California company that long ago drowned out most competitors and shrewdly monopolized its niche. Admitting that his company's use of the carcinogenic toluene diisocyanate, or TDI, is a highly regulated potential health hazard, Clark cited threats of "very large fines, civil lawsuits, and even time in prison" as reasons for the closure...
...premise that ambition is the "need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it" confuses ambition with greed and cutthroat competitiveness. Nature may be a zero-sum game, but civilization is not. Ambitious people don't just grab a bigger piece of the pie; they make the pie bigger, so there's more to go around. Ambitious people brought us the printing press, the personal computer, medical advances and agricultural efficiencies undreamed of 100 years...
...friend by (merely) claiming a shared House. Whereas at Oxford and Cambridge—the universities upon which our system was modelled—students are still identified as residents of certain colleges, at Harvard you are more likely to be identified by your cliquish social club or cutthroat political group. There is little community, little sense of shared space...