Word: cutthroat
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Sure, this makes conference play more cutthroat, but that doesn’t necessarily equate to exciting play. Since the Ivy League, at least in basketball, isn’t in the business of producing contenders for the national championship, I believe it is safe to assume that the purpose of Ivy League basketball is to enhance the collegiate experience...
...supporters of the sale have argued that serving under corporate overlords as undergraduates will help prepare budding journalists for the cutthroat, bottom line-driven environment of the battered news industry...
Mitt Romney's mind is a marvel - a calculating, evaluating, inquisitive, all-consuming consulting machine, formed on his CEO-father's lap, trained in Harvard's business and law schools, and perfected while making hundreds of millions in the cutthroat world of private equity investing. There is not a spreadsheet that does not pique his interest, not a bureaucracy he does not itch to streamline, not a widget factory he does not wish to understand...
...compete in a cutthroat global market, Woo, 57, is plowing $100 million into a new plant, investing in another in India and employing migrant workers from South Asia and China--a practice that has provoked controversy. In 2005, his Chinese workers protested over low pay. This year an article in the London Sunday Times quoted the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation as warning that some textile companies treat migrant workers "like slaves." Woo's response? His company pays workers more than the minimum rate set by the government and complies with the ethical codes laid down by customers...
...credit, “Rocket Science” is eloquent in its portrayal of Hal’s life and his struggles with both the everyday problems of love and relationships and the not-so-ordinary problems that confront him in the cutthroat world of competitive debate...