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...against a career on Wall Street, Christ is planning to be a management consultant. He wants, he says, "to get broader exposure to what is going on in the business world, meet a lot more people, and work with a team in an environment that is supposedly not as cutthroat as banking." Susan O'Brien, 22, a Barnard senior, had been planning a career on Wall Street, but now may look elsewhere. "I think about my friends who work down there. Their lives and careers are on edge," she says...
That is especially true in the risky, cutthroat pharmaceutical business, where the typical product costs about $125 million to bring from the laboratory to the pharmacy shelf. Although drug patents can last up to 22 years, firms must test a product for several years after a patent filing to win approval from the Food and Drug Administration. That gives competitors, who have access to the filing, time to tinker with a patented compound and make it different enough to qualify as a new drug. Growing, too, are the ranks of generic-drug producers who do little or no research...
...some differences cause more pain than amusement. Many of the African students say they are perturbed by the constant rivalry among their peers. "In every aspect of student life, there is cutthroat competition at one level or another," says Ndiaye. "There's so much pressure. The students don't have time to socialize," Okhwatenie says...
Planning to follow family tradition, du Pont majored in engineering at Princeton and there met his future wife Elise, a finely chiseled Bryn Mawr student and Philadelphia heiress with bloodlines as imposing as his own. Du Pont retains fond memories of the cutthroat competition of Harvard Law School but only dim memories of what he calls his "very conventional" life before then. While at Princeton, he had a blind date with Vassar Student Jane Fonda but cannot remember what they...
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...