Word: cutthroats
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...been an agile phone warrior, and there are few signs that the breakup has put the core business into better shape to meet cutthroat competition. Anyone turning on a radio or TV, answering the phone or picking up the mail these days has to fend off endless pleas from AT&T and competitors--MCI and Sprint are the biggest--to switch his or her long-distance calls from one carrier to another. Or pleas not to switch. Or to switch back...
...cutthroat world of celebrity teddy-bear auctioning, a lot depends on who's wielding the hammer. More people probably want to cuddle up to Elle Macpherson than to ROSIE O'DONNELL, but at an auction for the Children's Safety Project at New York City's Greenwich House, which O'Donnell co-gaveled with KEVIN SPACEY, the talk-show host's bears sold for $5,800, more than 20 times what the model's fetched. (Rosie threw in a guest spot on her show.) Singer Natalie Merchant's personally made bears garnered less than Muhammad Ali's or Al Pacino...
James Caan, as Kruger's mentor, ably reveals the cutthroat brutality that lies behind the merely serious face of top-secret government. Vanessa Williams, on the other hand, must play the thankless, Schwarzenegger equivalent of a "Bond girl," minus the glamour...
Creating an environment where this type of achievement can thrive is not the work of giant funding projects or cutthroat competition; it is the doing of remarkable individuals in small gestures. Harvard College is full of some of the most successful people in this regard. They are role models for the type of person I would like to be: someone whom others respect and admire, not for anything extrinsic, but for the quality of his work and his compassion and kindness to others. Someone who is firm in his beliefs and values and who conveys them not by preaching...
...retailing practice. Toy watchers were startled as well, because the Feds also say those Barbies, G.I. Joes and Buzz Lightyears that your kids are clamoring for could be overpriced. Yet the company, with sales of $9.4 billion last year, has been struggling to improve the bottom line in a cutthroat environment. "It's hard to make the case that there is a lack of competition in the toy industry," says Sean McGowan of Gerard Klauer Mattison. "Price competition is brutal and getting worse every year." McGowan notes that big retailers often warn manufacturers, "'If you sell...