Word: cutthroats
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...physique conceals a formidable will. Says a friend: "He is like the Colosseum; he looks like a ruin but he'll be around for a long time." Last week slight, silver-haired Segni, 71, proved the accuracy of the description. He outlasted his rivals during five days of cutthroat politicking and nine closely contested ballots in the Chamber of Deputies, was finally elected to a seven-year term as President of Italy. Quipped Antonio Segni's partisans in a somewhat blasphemous parody of the miraculous vision that came to the Emperor Constantine as he marched on Rome...
...Kassem tried to curry favor among the Kurdish tribes to solidify his own power. He promised them Kurdish schools, Kurdish newspapers, a Kurdish political party. So that the Kurds would not get too strong, however, Kassem armed rival Kurdish clans, playing them off against each other in cutthroat wars...
...privilege of dancing sedately with each other for the sake of the poor or the worthy. In many U.S. cities-San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Dallas-it still is. But in Manhattan, charity balls have proliferated into a bustling industry where worthy charities engage in cutthroat competition, good intentions clash with social ambitions, and publicity agents prowl...
This is not only a very comfortable and expedient way of running a College, it keeps disagreements from reaching cutthroat levels. It is also in the best traditions of laissez-faire. But laissez-faire education, like laissez-faire economics, depends on a consumer-oriented economy. The issue of whether higher education should be a consumer industry has received very little attention...
According to Miss Rand capitalism today is taunted by various impurities, and it is from this pollution that all the apparent evils in the system stem. To be objective, businessmen must be free. And to be free, business must be daring, cutthroat, and laissez-faire. As far as Miss Rand is concerned, any from of government control, no matter how slight, is too much...