They didn't have to be super professional cut-throat business people.
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She was portrayed as a cut-throat contestant during the season.
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There is no chance Japan will adopt cut-throat capitalism overnight.
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Some consolidation in the cut-throat supermarket business had been expected.
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Yet the unofficial answer aligns better with Karachi's cut-throat reputation.
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I accept that airlines operate in a more cut-throat marketplace.
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IN THE CUT-THROAT business of civil aviation, every little helps.
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Ultimately, air travel is a cut-throat, extremely low profit margin business.
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Cut-throat competition among lenders has driven rates on personal loans down.
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Like any good thriller, "Erica & Anna: Leverage" involves all the classic makings of a political drama, from intrigue about the cut-throat, backdoor dealings of campaign strategy to the inevitable workaholics making those cut-throat back door deals.
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They are running cut-throat tendering processes rather than relying on existing relationships.
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She said, 'This never happens to men, this kind of cut-throat business.
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Amazon's cut-throat pricing has lowered online inflation by about one percentage point.
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Having established themselves in the cut-throat mainland market, many are heading abroad.
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Failing exams casts you down into an unpredictable world of cut-throat competition.
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High corporate profits suggest that private markets are not hotbeds of cut-throat competition.
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"We will not engage in some cut-throat race to the bottom," he said.
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IN THE CUT-THROAT realm of reality TV, "Wanted Down Under" is a survivor.
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In many industries, China's entrepreneurs face more cut-throat competition than their Western peers.
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That would make a big difference in this cut-throat and low-margin business.
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The online travel market is cut-throat, and brands struggle to keep people's attention.
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In today's cut-throat political discourse, that may be too much to hope for.
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In the fast-paced, cut-throat chicken industry, it's hard to set yourself apart.
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O) hints that its cut-throat rivalry with U.S. ride-hailing rival Uber Inc (UBER.
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Only the top three finishers qualify for the Olympics in the cut-throat U.S. trials.
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Does the overcrowded and cut-throat music streaming business have room for an additional player?
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Bombardier executives respond that in the cut-throat airliner world, negotiations always start far apart.
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But he found the business culture more cut-throat and less trusting than back home.
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"Imagine at the age of 16 being sex-trafficked by a pimp named "cut-throat.
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Their stories reveal a cut-throat environment where men in power live with relative impunity.
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Cut-throat competition for customers has also caused concern over false advertising and massaged statistics.
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"The process was much more competitive and cut throat than I expected," said Ms. Andersson.
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Digital platforms offer new opportunities for do-gooding microfinanciers, but also for cut-throat payday lenders.
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The good-natured, sociable Lipizzans were bred for pleasure, not war—or cut-throat Olympic competitions.
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Profits that heady smack more of an oligopoly than of a cut-throat battle for business.
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But the industry faces the same sort of cut-throat competition that technology has caused elsewhere.
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Its cofounder explains how causing chaos is key to staying competitive in a cut-throat industry.
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Once state support for AT&T's monopoly status was removed, the phone market became cut-throat.
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After all, this is the most cut-throat world of them all: the world of entertainment.
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Your mom has no idea of how cut-throat it is out in these playground streets.
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We all know that Los Angeles is a nepotistic, cut-throat, and full of Hollywood royalty.
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The music industry has always been cut-throat, and on-going internet fragmentation only complicates matters.
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And we ask why Disney wants to enter the cut-throat business of video-on-demand.
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I didn't want to adopt these cut-throat techniques, but I did crave these levels of confidence.
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But the market could go from cut-throat competition to oligopoly to state control with extraordinary speed.
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Black Friday this week will feature cut-throat deals, but how can this be profitable for retailers?
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Only the top three finishers in each event at the cut-throat trials qualify for the Olympics.
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The competition for orders was cut-throat, partly owing to the "John Leahy factor", Mr Michaels writes.
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There's none of the cut-throat hostility that you'd see on the likes of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
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"Losses are widening and the competition is cut-throat," said Haris Anwar, analyst at financial markets platform Investing.com.
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Florentino made a bold decision; he jettisoned a life in politics for an even more cut-throat existence.
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The toughest part is yet to come: defending that belt in the most cut throat division in MMA.
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Like many rivals, the lender has also faced pressure on its profitability from cut-throat mortgage market competition.
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Logistics is a cut-throat business, and plenty of startups have already failed in the restaurant loyalty space.
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Yet if such mutinies are brutal for the deserted party, they are even more cut-throat for the mutineers.
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But his leadership style is also cut-throat and tinged with nationalism, say some of those who know him.
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Machiavellians are only out for their own interests, which helps justify their wildly selfish and cut-throat behaviors, he says.
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CUT-THROAT COMPETITION Launched in 2007 by two former Amazon employees, Flipkart sells everything from cellphones to suitcases and cosmetics.
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This simple, cut-throat move is what officially changes how Al views his cousin and manager once and for all.
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In 2004, Brown was forced into prostitution by a pimp known as "Cut Throat" who she believed was her boyfriend.
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Alternatively, if competition is cut-throat, profits might evaporate to the point that companies have little incentive to take risks.
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Ofo fended off dozens of copycat rivals, but it now risks becoming the latest casualty of a cut-throat industry.
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Two decades of advances in processing power, allied with cut-throat competition between games designers, have advanced the art tremendously.
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Rihanna posted on social media: "Imagine at the age of 16 being sex-trafficked by a pimp named "cut-throat.
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On a cultural level, Alexa has even managed to give the cut-throat and merciless Amazon a bit of personality.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Cut-throat competition in India and an onslaught from rivals in its home market prompted Britain's Vodafone (VOD.
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In the age of advanced technological advancements and cut-throat competition, curiosity and survival instinct is the mother of all inventions.
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It is a cut-throat competitor just like its fellow Chinese mass-producers, who seek advantage by fair means and foul.
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But few major new projects are on the horizon and competition is cut-throat in the $800 billion aerospace parts industry.
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Tyler reiterated a warning over the profitability of carriers in Southeast Asia, home to cut-throat competition between low-cost carriers.
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"To say that allocations for Teva bonds were cut-throat is an understatement," one syndicate banker away from the deal said.
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Then, there's Bethany (Mia Kirshner), the cut-throat owner of a financial firm and single mom to two high-school daughters.
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That ended any hope of her going to Rio since only the top three finishers in the cut-throat trials advance.
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A former employee last month recounted a workplace of sexual harassment and cut-throat competition, prompting Uber to launch an internal investigation.
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The garment trade is not where you usually find stories of business success that are also inspiring, especially in cut-throat China.
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Only world number two Justin Thomas, seeded second, and Masters champion Sergio Garcia (7) made it through the cut throat group stage.
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During a New Zealand high school production of Sweeney Todd, two teenage students had their necks sliced with real cut-throat razors.
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And being the ruthless, cut-throat type of guy that he is there's a chance some of his fleet may be stolen.
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It's a cut-throat competition with Twitter, with Moments and Hashtags, and Facebook with its reach and new Stadium for sports chatter.
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Around the office, you can see bright orange shark memorabilia as a play on the joke of lawyers being cut-throat "sharks."
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Iliad attacked the French market in a similar way, offering mobile packages at cut-throat prices to the first 3 million customers.
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But, only four U.S. carriers have survived the airline hunger games long enough to provide those low fares through cut-throat competition.
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The fight for places on the U.S. swim team is about as cut-throat and unforgiving as anything in the sporting sphere.
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Her findings, which were published this week in Biology Letters, tell a cut-throat tale of sexual competition in the African desert.
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His cut-throat style with an unabashed femininity tends to pose a threat to the masculinity of tough guys on the block.
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Adams said she never wanted to go on a brand trip again because the influencer world was so unfriendly and cut-throat.
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Too often, political campaigns get all the credit for being cut throat, while legislative and advocacy campaigns are perceived with less intensity.
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Mindy Kaling as a cut-throat competing news anchor whose one boozy lunch away from convincing Daniel (Desean Terry) to join YDA.
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Mitch McConnell, preeminent cut-throat political tactician, is going with a softer touch to salvage Brett Kavanaugh's suddenly endangered Supreme Court confirmation.
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Supermodel Liu Wen has built an illustrious career in the cut-throat fashion industry, paving the way for models of Eastern Asian descent.
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AmEx faces cut-throat competition, particularly for premium customers, as card issuers offer ever richer levels of rewards to acquire and keep customers.
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New entrants, such as China's own trading powerhouse, COFCO, and Glencore, an Anglo-Swiss firm, are also making the competition more cut-throat.
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In the cut-throat world of New York real estate, Lisa Simonsen has made a name for herself making sales for luxury homes.
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Better yet, thanks to conservative regulation (and less-than-cut-throat competition), Australia's financial system was in good shape when the crisis struck.
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The International Olympic Committee ruthlessly banned GIFing the games and, here in the U.S., NBC has been cut throat about protecting its footage.
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Loyalty programs such as Aeroplan are expected to help Canadian airlines expand their revenue streams amid a cut-throat battle for market share.
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That's why jobs site Glassdoor analyzed thousands of job openings to find roles that offer generous compensation but lack the cut-throat competition.
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The rollout of NBN, one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Australian history, prompted cut-throat competition in the sector and pressured margins.
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L) Australian business on Wednesday, easing competition in the cut-throat sector and buying scale to take on bigger rivals Telstra Corp Ltd (TLS.
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Many analysts say the real risk to Samsung lies in the reputational damage it suffers in a cut-throat industry rather than financial costs.
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Los Rojiblancos' ratio of passes to shots is 36:1, less like cut-throat Leicester (26:1) and more like intricate Arsenal (37:1).
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These are rare qualities in the cut-throat world of modern football, in which the median tenure of current managers is less than one year.
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As well as revealing cut-throat competition over self-driving car technology, the case draws attention to how intertwined rivals often are in Silicon Valley.
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The actress plays a high-fashion, cut-throat "power chick" in the new film — and that meant a pass on the series' iconic red swimsuits.
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The world's biggest advertising company said that amid cut-throat competition, consumer-products firms, the mainstay of its business, were curtailing their spending on marketing.
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It is unclear what the kittens have against Firefox, though I suppose it is possible they simply abjure all cute fuzzy competition. Cut-throat. Ruthless.
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Ryanair's results for the half year to September, released on Monday, provided more evidence of the cut-throat competition in Europe's low-cost airfare market.
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Netflix now says it will spend $7 billion to $8 billion on content in 2018, pushing expectations ever higher in the cut-throat content business.
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This has supported fast-food sales, which have been resilient even as a cut-throat battle has broken out in the $800bn US restaurant industry.
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Private equity firms are seen as the most likely bidders for the hypermarkets business that has struggled to compete in the cut-throat German market.
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So must McMaster learn from history and learn to adapt his effective combat leadership in Iraq to the often cut throat, political battlefields of Washington.
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JESSE WATTERS, CO-HOST: Well, it&aposs tough to kind of unilaterally lay down your weapons in politics because it&aposs such a cut-throat industry.
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Bottom line: The war for consumers' attention is intensely cut-throat, but the competition to get more people connected to the internet is just as fierce.
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Bike-sharing, the year's hottest startup trend in China and beyond, looks like it is about to see the biggest casualty of its cut-throat competition.
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It took seven months for Steve Bannon to wear out his welcome in the White House, but the magazine thinkfluencer circuit appears even more cut-throat.
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These loans have higher margins than the cut-throat online-payment business—although the giants of the industry, such as PayPal, are experimenting with similar offerings.
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The coldest, highest rivers of south-western Montana are home to the Yellowstone cut-throat trout, named after an orange under-jaw marking like a slash.
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Smaller than non-native rainbow and brown trout, which were introduced to Montana in the 19th century, the cut-throat is especially sensitive to warming water.
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With no prices to compare, and other options only a click away, companies such as Google seem to operate in an environment of cut-throat competition.
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It is one of the world's largest mobile carriers by subscribers, but competition in China is cut-throat and its earnings have struggled in recent quarters.
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"In a cut-throat competitive turbine pricing environment, the additional costs of transport can win or lose contracts," said Jesse Broehl, senior analyst at Navigant Research.
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Or the underlying sexism in her character's reputation as a cut-throat lawyer when her actual aggressiveness in the courtroom pales in comparison to Ray Liotta's?
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Charles Schwab execs explained why the firm is now having to make 'distasteful' cash offers to investors just to compete in the cut-throat brokerage industry
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Private equity can be a cut-throat business, but when it comes to a worthwhile cause that competitive nature can be used for a lot of good.
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The airline's problems are symbolic of the struggles of national carriers brought to their knees by cut-throat competition from fast-growing rivals such as Etihad Airways.
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Facing cut-throat competition, Vocus fell into a downward spiral in 2017 and 2018, cutting and missing profit forecasts as its retail businesses battled falling profit margins.
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This year she has won just eight singles matches coming into Roland Garros, and two of those were in the arguably less cut-throat Fed Cup competition.
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All that is gone, replaced by a cut-throat world of shipping the latest and the greatest to a public that is used to getting the best.
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Known better for his desserts, one well-known pastry chef thinks he's also cracked the recipe for something else in New York's cut-throat food scene: survival.
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More than 1,000 companies showed off their wares at the biennial Shanghai Auto Show —testament to the power of mainland consumers and the industry's cut-throat nature.
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Ride-hailing, like many online businesses, is a cut-throat, winner-takes-all market: Didi itself is the product of a 2015 merger of two local firms.
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Clouzard's challenge will be to boost the performance of the group's French hypermarkets, a goal that has eluded several predecessors because of cut-throat competition in France.
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An over-the-top parody of the art world, this delicately created diorama accentuates a certain cut-throat nature of the art world, while also parodying it.
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Regardless, the couple has seen their fair share of courtrooms over the years, and, if all is true, appear to engage in some cut throat business tactics.
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Mashable's first #BizChats of 2016 went behind the scenes of the cut-throat world of finance to uncover some of the best strategies of Wall Street's top professionals.
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They also described a cut-throat culture, where the pressure to sell technology to corporate, government and military clients overrode moral questions around the application of the technology.
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Steve Komarow's four-decade career was most accomplished, but his main achievement was something even rarer in the often cut-throat worlds of Washington bureaus and foreign corresponding.
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The critically acclaimed film "The Social Network " portrays Zuckerberg as a cut-throat, if socially awkward, genius and the creation of Facebook as a tumultuous and explosive journey.
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Fu, a 32-year-old survivor in his nation's cut-throat badminton programme, celebrated his second Olympic gold after winning the doubles title with Cai Yun in London.
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"The first time he did something to me is when he choked me and I passed out," Brown recounts of her alleged pimp "Cut Throat" in the documentary.
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This reflected costs tied to the integration of the loss-making Dia discount stores and increased promotional activity at French hypermarkets amid cut-throat competition in the sector.
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A healthcare right Scientists, academia, and industry are engaged in cut-throat competition — driven by the relentless pursue of intellectual property, as well as regulatory and commercial success.
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The laptop seems destined to fade away, rather than burn out — but even so, in the cut throat world of consumer electronics, a decade's a pretty good run.
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Legere's comments show he's open to options as well, and also said Sprint and other wireless carriers were showing signs of "desperation" in the cut-throat wireless market.
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Analysts and industry executives say the tougher rules on fundraising would strain the ability of some smaller developers to finance deals, forcing consolidation in a cut-throat market.
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A sluggish backdrop for mass market products in L'Oreal's home market - echoing the cut-throat competition hampering French supermarket retailers - showed little signs of a turnaround so far.
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Kroger, like other grocers, has been struggling amid pressure from falling food prices, dull U.S. economic growth, and a cut-throat price war with Wal-Mart Stores and Amazon.
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Australia's brick-and-mortar retailers have been struggling amid cut-throat competition and as relentless price discounts fail to entice customers facing paltry wage growth and mountains of debt.
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"There is no system for protecting creators, many of whom have no experience in any industry, let alone the notoriously cut-throat entertainment industry," Green wrote at the time.
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As Fonseca fell, with his head bouncing off the canvas and his arms in the air, Garcia performed a cut-throat gesture before nonchalantly walking to a neutral corner.
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They are our entry ticket to the world of high art, a place of short blunt bangs, cut-throat competition, and enough money and booze to drown Los Angeles.
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Although the Indian air travel market is the world's fastest growing, at about 20 percent a year, it is also hobbled by cut-throat competition and chronically low fares.
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Cut-throat competition to win event-driven underwriting has also led many banks to offer increasingly toppy terms as it is more profitable than refinancing and repricing existing loans.
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This has led to some cut-throat situations to snag an available bicycle (and not a broken dud.) Anecdotally, the demand for dockless bike access has more than arrived.
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"More than anything, what this conversation makes me think about is the cut-throat nature of business in this game," former major league catcher John Baker told VICE Sports.
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Competition is particularly cut-throat in China's mobile gaming sector, where creativity is in short supply and a popular shortcut to success is knocking off an already viral title.
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The newly disclosed cuts show the extent of the company's focus on lowering overheads as cut-throat competition and new technology put pressure on its mainstay fixed-line businesses.
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Rats come in various shapes and sizes but one's ability to spot one early enough to act upon does tend to ensure longevity in the cut throat Square Mile.
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Aggressive promotions and online sales by Evergrande are expected to put pressure on other real estate firms to follow suit, intensifying competition in the cut-throat real estate market.
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So while you might be a big-shot in your community, town, or city, the rules in Silicon Valley — a place notorious for being cut-throat — are very different.
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Gatlin, the Olympic silver medallist who has been hampered by injuries, must finish in the top three at the cut-throat championships to make the U.S. team for London.
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It has been caught up in a sales slump in North America while combating the likes of Nike, Adidas and Lululemon in a cut-throat sports apparel and sneaker market.
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LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Britain will not seek to undermine the European Union's standards with a "cut-throat race to the bottom", British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday.
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It argued that middle-ranked countries were in a bind, unable to compete either with the cutting-edge technology of rich nations or the cut-throat prices of poor ones.
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Of course it's an awkward conversation topic for tech giants if vital institutions and societal norms are being undermined because of your cut-throat profiteering on the unregulated cyber seas.
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"BCC" ("blind carbon copy") was devised as a way to shield an email address from view, but it's since devolved into a weapon in the worst, cut-throat corporate cultures.
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Jio launched late last year with free voice and cut-price data, sparking a price war in India's cut-throat telecoms sector which has driven down margins and forced consolidation.
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In the cut-throat British market, Aldi (owned by Süd) increased its groceries share to 20.5%, from 6.2% just a year ago; Lidl's jumped from 4.6% to 5.2% (see chart).
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The performance reflected cost savings of 520 million euros and robust sales in Brazil, which helped offset weakness in the core French market amid cut-throat competition among supermarket retailers.
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Heavy investments on fixed networks, combined with prolonged heavy promotions by SFR and competitors Iliad, Orange and Bouygues Telecom, have led to cut-throat competition in the French telecoms sector.
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Umana was chosen by the Harvard Law Review's 92 student editors in what is widely considered the highest-ranked position that a student can have at the cut-throat law school.
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Lyft Inc also advanced 23.30% after the ride hailing service raised its outlook for the year and hinted at the end of its cut-throat price war with Uber Technologies Inc.
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Any sign that discount retailers Aldi and Lidl are slowing their invasion of the cut-throat British market, or that Amazon's push into groceries is faltering, would be good for Tesco.
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TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - Airbus lifted the lid on one of the aircraft industry's worst-kept secrets on Thursday, revealing the scale of average discounts in the cut-throat global jet market.
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"The solar power sector should strengthen self-discipline whether domestically or overseas, and it should refrain from false propaganda and from price-gouging cut-throat competition," Wang told an industry conference.
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A cut-throat competition in India's telecoms industry since the entry of Reliance Jio, owned by Anil Ambani's elder brother Mukesh Ambani, had forced RCom to shut down its wireless business.
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Limiting Huawei's access to the Swedish market would be a boon for domestic supplier Ericsson and Finland's Nokia, which have been in cut-throat competition with the Chinese firm for years.
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The high-value consumer electronics and software industry is used to very different margins than the cut-throat automotive sector, which has tough market entry conditions and tribal supply-chain relationships.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, is to offer a one-hour grocery delivery service to customers in central London, firing the latest salvo in the cut-throat online supermarket sector.
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Critics say cut-throat competition between China's cities and regions has caused price-sapping overcapacity in a wide range of sectors, including steel and solar - and electric cars could be next.
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In 2017 Janet Yellen, then chair of the Federal Reserve, wondered aloud if cut-throat online competition might be stopping goods-producers raising prices even in a world of rising demand.
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It means higher profits and margins than in India's cut-throat market dominated by low-cost carriers, and Vistara and AirAsia now aim to boost their fleet sizes within a year.
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The strategic partnership follows speculation that Siemens is looking to find a joint venture partner for the business, where sales and profit have collapsed amid falling demand and cut-throat price competition.
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Much of that was because of a write-down of its business in India, which was hammered by cut-throat competition in the country's telecoms market from the entry of Reliance's Jio.
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The Nightly Show's Larry Wilmore's White House Correspondents' Dinner wasted few words before getting to the real reason people voluntarily tune into C-SPAN once a year: The cut-throat media jokes.
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It is a cut-throat industry in which a majority of the companies are selling third-party brands and competing with online sites of these brands, such as airlines and hotel chains.
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Cut-throat competition between VCs over the more attractive deals drives valuations through the roof and causes VCs to run a much looser due diligence process in order to quickly win deals.
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The survival of companies like MMC highlights the difficulty of shaking out weak players in a cut-throat industry if management avoids tough decisions to downsize, merge or liquidate, industry observers say.
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Starring in her own romantic comedy, Natalie navigates her place in a shinier New York City and a cut-throat workplace, all while trying to win over heart-throb Blake (Liam Hemsworth).
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian pension fund Cbus is seeking to buy stakes directly in infrastructure assets to save on fees paid to external managers in a cut-throat environment, a top official said.
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"He started doing the application for me behind my back," Grey tells PEOPLE, adding that he had initially told his husband that the cut-throat reality series may be "too much" for him.
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SFR's operating profit decline to 999 million euros ($1.11 billion) in April-June reflected the cut-throat competition and a loss of mobile customers, with revenue down 4.3 percent at 2.78 billion euros.
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Their products have been replicated time after time in this cut-throat industry, they're quick to note, and they say they are concerned about tipping off competitors with much talk of future plans.
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Singapore's electronics sector has been underperforming neighbors such as South Korea and Taiwan due to cut-throat competition, as well as the city-state's lack of popular high-tech products such as smartphones.
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TOULOUSE, France, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Airbus lifted the lid on one of the aircraft industry's worst-kept secrets on Thursday, revealing the scale of average discounts in the cut-throat global jet market.
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SFR's operating profit decline to 999 million euros ($1.1 billion) in April-June reflected the cut-throat competition and a loss of mobile customers, with revenue down 4.3 percent at 2.78 billion euros.
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Firms in China's mostly privately held express delivery sector are eyeing mergers and listings to help ease strains wrought by cut-throat competition and growing investment demands amid the country's e-commerce boom.
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The re-invigorated startup community lured home Canadians - such as the founder of online investment startup Wealthsimple, Mike Katchen - keen to trade promising careers for a more supportive and less cut-throat environment.
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Singapore's electronics sector has been underperforming neighbours such as South Korea and Taiwan due to cut-throat competition, as well as the city-state's lack of popular high-tech products such as smartphones.
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Jefferies' stepped-up Asia expansion comes at a time when some investment banks are looking to reduce costs in the cut-throat competitive equities sales and trading, and research businesses in the region.
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One of the fashion industry sources, who worked with Marchesa on special projects in the past, told CNN the company used to have a "cut-throat" environment where employees competed for prestigious roles.
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Iliad is aiming to grab a quarter of the Italian mobile market using the same cut-throat prices and straightforward contracts that conquered France, two sources familiar with its plan told Reuters in April.
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Germany liberalised the long-distance bus market in 2013, prompting a flood of entrants onto the market including the bright-yellow Postbus, but also quickly leading to cut-throat price competition, insolvencies and consolidation.
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The best hope for Jio is that in the distant future it will be one of three firms left and that a cut-throat industry will evolve into a comfy oligopoly, which is possible.
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Her 2016 short story collection, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, featured puppets with their strings slashed like a cut throat and a marshland full of drowned corpses that became its own city.
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Cut-throat competition is expected this year for TV sports rights in France, with analysts saying that Canal Plus could lose out to SFR Group in the battle for some of the main sports.
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EverRatchet Ratcheting Keychain Multi-Tool — $21.24 See Details Compact but cut-throat, Bomber's tactical pocket knife is perfect for slicing and dicing almost anything, which is perfect for creating an impromptu campsite or bonfire.
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First, to compete with giants like Google in a cut-throat talent market, companies are offering their employees a huge variety of perks, from meditation rooms to concierge services to egg-freezing for women.
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Iliad is aiming to grab a quarter of the Italian mobile market using the same cut-throat prices and straightforward contracts that conquered France, two sources familiar with its plan told Reuters last year.
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Further price increases are needed to offset higher raw-material costs despite their slight decline from recent peaks, Henry said, playing down analysts' doubts about the strategy amid cut-throat competition from Chinese brands.
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Airlines around the world have reported pressure on fares over the last couple of years due to volatile demand and cut-throat competition, though Europe's major carriers have recently noted signs of the pressure easing.
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The cut-throat competition among India's telecoms companies spurred another merger of former rivals when Vodafone agreed to combine its business in the country with Idea Cellular, creating India's biggest provider of mobile-phone services.
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Reliance Industries, led by India's wealthiest man Mukesh Ambani, waded into India's cut-throat telecoms industry last year with its $30 billion bet on Jio, upending the sector with its cheap smartphones and data plans.
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On the surface, fund closures are the norm in a cut-throat industry: every year hundreds of fund managers call it quits, only to be replaced by yet more would-be masters of the universe.
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Vodafone, one of the largest corporate investors in Asia's third-largest economy, is expected to use the proceeds to buy additional radio spectrum and further expand its operations across India's crowded and cut-throat market.
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In India, Vodafone is in talks to merge its Indian subsidiary with Idea Cellular to create the biggest mobile firm in the country and fend off cut-throat competition from new rival Reliance Jio Infocomm.
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The Didi deal is the latest sign that global Internet and technology companies are struggling to break into China's cut-throat market, where local entrepreneurs have built formidable businesses, partly helped by a supportive government.
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LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Britain's biggest supermarket chain Tesco plc said its banking unit will stop mortgage lending, amid cut-throat competition and tough market conditions that have pressured profits for lenders across the sector.
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CSX easily topped Wall Street forecasts for first-quarter profit as the No. 24.6 U.S. railroad operator benefited from a cut-throat efficiency and cost-cutting drive, sending its shares 259.19 percent higher on Tuesday.
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The defeat ended any chance of her going for a rare 200-400 meters Olympic double since the American selection system is notoriously cut-throat, based solely on a top three finish in the trials.
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Interactive Brokers in July announced a simulated-sports-betting exchange, then was an early mover in this fall's cut-throat broker wars when it announced unlimited free US stock and ETF trades via IBKR Lite.
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Metro CEO Olaf Koch has put Real up for sale, with private equity firms seen as the most likely bidders for the hypermarkets business that has struggled to compete in the cut-throat German market.
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Cut-throat competition has made India one of the world's cheapest domestic airline markets and deals such as $50 one-way tickets on the two-hour flight from Mumbai to Delhi are easy to find.
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Market sources said this was enough to disrupt trade in the cut-throat plane business but low enough to tempt some airlines to negotiate for Airbus to absorb some of the cost, squeezing its margins.
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Competition in the sector has become less cut-throat as companies roll back profit-damaging subsidies, which in turn has allowed Meituan to capitalise on its first-mover advantage over rivals in China's smaller cities.
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The alternative was capitalism, which Soviet propaganda had portrayed as a cut-throat and cynical system in which cunning and ruthlessness mattered more than integrity or rules, and where money was the only measure of success.
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LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - Tesco on Friday unveiled its latest weapon in a drive to improve its image and win share in the cut-throat British grocery market - free fruit for children while their parents shop.
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The business, which employs 80,000 people, has struggled with collapsing global demand for large gas turbines used to generate electricity as well as cut-throat pricing competition with rivals including General Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
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The business, which employs 80,000 people, has struggled with collapsing global demand for large gas turbines used to generate electricity as well as cut-throat pricing competition with rivals including General Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
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Airbus announced a last-minute order for 13 of the XLR jets from U.S. budget carrier JetBlue Airways, which is expanding into the cut-throat transatlantic market, joining a varied list of backers including American Airlines.
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China's mostly privately held express delivery firms are eyeing mergers and listings to help cope with cut-throat competition and growing investment demands amid the country's e-commerce boom, led by giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd .
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At 16, Ms. Brown ran away from her adoptive family and started to live in a motel with a pimp known as "Cut Throat," who raped and abused her while forcing her to become a prostitute.
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Catherine (played by a coolly removed Sarah Sutherland) is merely a prop for her comically cut-throat mother who holds up her daughter when she needs to look the part of a caring, involved parent in public.
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Competition from investment funds has piled on pressure on speciality insurers and reinsurers, even as they face cut-throat pricing competition, with the Western world not having seen any large-scale catastrophes since Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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Some strategists said that Roots' launch could also be clouded by a cut-throat retail market that has forced companies to close shop and file for bankruptcy protection, and high consumer debt exacerbated by rising interest rates.
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AT&T and Sprint have been focusing on paying down debt rather than winning customers by lowering prices, which meant Verizon did not face cut-throat competition in the quarter, said Craig Moffett, an analyst with MoffettNathanson.
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When she saw his Instagram story looking for fresh talent, indicating that he was back on the scene and ready to shoot, she considered it a prime opportunity to boost her career in a cut-throat industry.
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Esposito plays complacently calm, cool, collected, and cut-throat Gustavo Fring, a drug distributor for the Mexican cartel who hides in plain sight as the owner of a popular deep-fried chicken food chain and town socialite.
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Featuring a soundtrack of original music and stunning music performances, STAR follows three talented singers, desperate for a new start and with ambitions of stardom, as they navigate the cut-throat music business on their road to success.
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In a $900 billion cut-throat industry brimming with tensions, the head of Germany's Lufthansa hit out at low-cost airlines who slash fares to what he called unrealistic levels, though those firms say legacy carriers are bloated.
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Other takeaways from the nascent war between Walmart and the Lidl: Milk war: Oppenheimer analysts Rupesh Parikh and Erica Eiler write, "pricing appears dynamic and cut-throat" at the Walmart and Lidl locations they visited in Winston Salem.
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Waning global demand for smartphones, especially in key markets such as China, and margin-eroding, cut-throat competition are ratcheting the pressure on manufacturers to find ways to convince consumers to pay up for a little bit extra.
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The retailer's banking arm, which serves more than 23,000 mortgage customers, is among a number of smaller lenders that have exited or cut back on home lending in recent months amid cut-throat competition and low interest rates.
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SFR's previous inability to generate growth in a cut-throat competitive environment in France sent Altice Europe's shares down by 60% in late 13 and prompted Drahi to oust the then CEO and take back the front seat.
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With both fighters suffering setbacks in their last two outings, this fight does have the context of "loser leaves town" behind it with the UFC becoming increasingly cut-throat when it comes to releasing competitors from its roster.
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It became a pop-cultural moment: Two friends-turned-adversaries who've both climbed to fame and success in their own right finally sparring for the throne in one of the most cut-throat fashions—going bar for bar.
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Competition in China's food delivery sector has become less cut-throat as companies roll back profit-damaging subsidies, which in turn has allowed Meituan to capitalise on its first-mover advantage over rivals in the country's smaller cities.
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Competition in China's food delivery sector has become less cut-throat as companies roll back profit-damaging subsidies, which in turn has allowed Meituan to capitalise on its first-mover advantage over rivals in the country's smaller cities.
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The amount underlines the increasingly cut-throat fight for dominance of the free-to-play battle royale genre that, through Epic Games' global smash hit "Fortnite", has pushed major publishers like Electronic Arts to change how they do business.
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Most Indian airlines have returned to profitability in recent years, thanks in part to lower fuel costs, but challenges remain as carriers struggle to translate surging demand into sustainable profits because of cut-throat competition and high running costs.
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During the 1988 campaign, for instance, he helped open the door to some of the nastier elements in our modern political world, such as Lee Atwater's cut-throat campaign style that capitalized on division as a path to victory.
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Foreign players have shunned the cut-throat German grocery market, which is dominated by discounters Aldi and Lidl, since Walmart took a loss of $1 billion when it sold its stores to Metro and pulled out of the country in 2006.
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E.ON — one of Britain's "big six" energy providers — lost about 400,6003 clients in Britain in the first six months of the year, hit by a price cap on tariffs and cut-throat competition that has led profits to plunge by 65%.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian pension funds are luring dozens of portfolio managers to work in-house to boost returns in a cut-throat investment environment, a move that could see external fund managers lose A$230 million ($20183 million) in annual fees.
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The German engineering company said it would hand over to existing investors shares in the Gas and Power unit that has suffered from collapsing demand and cut-throat price competition as customers abandon fossil fuels and switch to renewable energy.
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But in the more professional and cut-throat street heroin and crack-selling markets, or in the highly lucrative cocaine smuggling game, it is essential not to be seen by customers or rivals as an easy target for rip-offs.
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Injured for more than a month this spring, Felix missed by one-hundredth of a second gaining the third 200 meters spot at the cut-throat U.S. trials after winning the 400 in what was then the year's best time.
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E.ON -- one of Britain's "big six" energy providers -- lost about 400,000 clients in Britain in the first six months of the year, hit by a price cap on tariffs and cut-throat competition that has led profits to plunge by 65%.
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But for both carriers and their rivals, the European market is so cut-throat that their excess profits will soon be competed away, especially since Ryanair and easyJet plan to keep expanding their capacity by up to 10% a year.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Retail giant Carrefour pledged on Thursday to boost operating margins in its cut-throat domestic market, after posting higher profits from Brazil and southern Europe, and signaled it is open to investors in its loss-making China arm.
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In France, competition for TV sports rights, including those for Formula One and the Champions League, is expected to be cut-throat and analysts worry that Vivendi's pay-TV subsidiary Canal Plus could lose them to rivals such as SFR Group.
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CEO Nadella has been widely praised for revamping Microsoft's traditional cut-throat competitive culture into a kinder, gentler version of itself — more willing to work with former rivals like Apple, as well as being a better corporate citizen in general.
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White established himself as the leader of a player-run faction called the Sixth Empire through cut-throat politicking, before rebranding the empire as an unofficial "Coast Guard" of sorts for New Eden's many warring pirate bands, corporations, and alliances.
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Coles said it needed a "strategic refresh" after its first result since it was spun out of Wesfarmers Ltd last year underscored the rationale for the conglomerate's exit from a cut-throat supermarket sector where growth is slow and costly.
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Dunkin', previously known as Dunkin' Donuts, revamped itself to change everything from its logo, store decor and menu to better compete with rivals, which are also tinkering with menu items and store ambience in a cut-throat U.S. coffee market.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A state-backed Japanese fund is frontrunner to rescue Sharp Corp, ahead of a rival approach from Apple supplier Foxconn, but industry insiders question whether it can protect the group in the long term amid cut-throat competition.
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It is also fighting off increasingly cut-throat competition from low-cost entrants into the Latin American market by rolling out a change to its business model that reduces basic fares while charging for services such as food and checked luggage.
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Although her attorneys argued she was a runaway who was raped, abused, and sex trafficked by a pimp known as "Cut Throat," Brown was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery in 2004 and sentenced to life in prison.
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Bone argued that although Brown has a high IQ, she functions at the cognitive level of a 603-year-old as a result of her fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, traumatic and violent past, and her abusive relationship with her trafficker Cut Throat.
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Beigui, who as part of his rescue work has encountered such horrors as the corpse of a migrant with a trafficker's bullet in his head, says the notion that his crew would collaborate with such a cut-throat and exploitative network is ridiculous.
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Winner: Kris Jenner Loser: Reality While some use the art of the feud for evil (see above), others use the art of the feud for good, like giving us the best cut-throat conversations between house wives to ever be captured on film.
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Japan's return to the aircraft market for the first time in 288 years had run into trouble as the Mitsubishi Regional Jet hit seven years of delays; but Bombardier's withdrawal from the cut-throat commercial aerospace sector gives Japan a second chance.
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The year's fastest at 100, 200 and 400 metres, as well as the 110 metres hurdles and women's 400 metres hurdles leaders, will be on the blue track at Drake University for the cut-throat championships/world trials, which begin on Thursday.
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Meanwhile, Jio signed up 24.5 million more subscribers in the June quarter, and government data on Friday showed that the telecoms group had become India's second biggest by subscribers, helped by cut-throat prices it began offering after its launch in 2016.
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Hampered by the injury she sustained this year in a freak gym incident, the 30-year-old Californian missed out on defending her Olympic 200 meters title when she failed to get in to the top three at the cut-throat U.S. trials.
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Rainbow and brown trout are pushing up into cut-throat fisheries, even into the protected rivers of Yellowstone National Park, where anglers must watch for grizzly bears and snorting, shaggy-headed bison, but increasingly catch hybrid trout, rather than pure-bred cut-throats.
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OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Connor Jaeger and Abbey Weitzeil wrapped up eight days of cut-throat competition by claiming the last two wins at the U.S. Olympic trials on Sunday as the final pieces of the Rio Games swim team were put in place.
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As the hot new IPOs, they'll also get good publicity, which can raise the visibility of Lyft and help Uber — with new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi at the helm — gloss over past reports of harassment in the workplace, gender discrimination, and cut-throat tactics.
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Japan's return to the aircraft market for the first time in 288 years had run into trouble as the Mitsubishi Regional Jet hit seven years of delays; but Bombardier's withdrawal from the cut-throat commercial aerospace sector gives Japan a second chance.
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But the notoriously cut-throat ridesharing company surprised even its own critics when it partnered with one of the most advanced university robotics labs in the US last year—only to immediately poach a third of its top scientists and its director.
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Earlier this year engineers in the cut-throat technology industry led a rare online labour movement to protest against the "996" regime (a de facto work schedule of 9am to 9pm, six days a week, often without extra pay for those extra hours).
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When she was 16, Ms. Brown, who had run away from her adoptive family, lived in a motel with a pimp known as "Cut Throat," who raped and abused her while forcing her to become a prostitute, according to a court document.
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From the most sensational headlines about cut-throat rivalries among top leaders to back-page news about internet catfights among intellectuals, the sacking of an editor at some obscure journal or the shuttering of a think-tank, Mao loyalists have been part of the story.
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The Boston-born Raisman is in no great hurry to plunge back into competition, however, knowing a year off to freshen up could be her best chance of building motivation for another tilt at surviving the cut-throat competition to make the U.S. team.
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FRANKFURT/HAMBURG (Reuters) - Just as Porsche and Audi have fought for supremacy on the race track, the Volkswagen brands are now locked in a cut-throat battle to develop and manufacture the next generation of electric cars at a group embroiled in the "Dieselgate" scandal.
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PARIS, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer, posted a steeper-than-expected 13 percent fall in first-half operating profit, as cut-throat competition hit margins in its core French market, highlighting the challenges faced by new chief executive Alexandre Bompard.
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JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) - The International team's Presidents Cup hopes were hanging by the slimmest of threads after the United States claimed six of eight matches in a cut-throat display on Saturday to sit on the brink of a seventh successive title.
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The firm is in the midst of an overhaul and is cutting a quarter of its workforce, struggling like other incumbent telcos to find a way forward at a time when cut-throat competition and new technology is crushing its mainstay fixed-line businesses.
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Whether it was because his reflexes slowed with age, or he became too comfortable at the top, or maybe the pure volatility, competitiveness and cut-throat nature of the sport finally caught up with him, his winning streak came crashing to an end in convincing fashion.
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There are still takers for the many dinner and cocktail receptions, but with oil prices down about 60 percent since mid-2014, and refinery margins hitting multi-year lows in August, delegates are putting business before partying to compete in a volatile and cut-throat market.
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Properties are pointed out along the route, as journalists and politicians on board are regaled with back histories of how their owners emerged as multi-millionaires or billionaires from the cut-throat shake-out of ex-USSR industries and companies following the state's collapse in 1991.
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Although Bombardier has toyed with the idea of building a bigger plane in the past, now is not the right time to consider breaking into the cut-throat 150-seat category as it tries to build on Delta's backing of its existing model, the people said.
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The emergence of Superphone, to me, is a sign of how artists are not just in need of more tools to market themselves in the cut-throat, thin margin world of digital music — but also of how some are looking to take matters into their own hands.
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He was not Muhammad Ali the prize fighter or Muhammad Ali the world champion, he was Muhammad Ali 'The Greatest…' With the cut throat quickness of a street fighter and the simple grace of a ballerina Ali moved with Achilles like agility and punched with herculean strength.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea invested heavily across the winter sports spectrum to boost its medal chances at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics but if the ongoing Winter Asiad is anything to go by, the cut-throat world of short track remains its best hope for gold next year.
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BEIJING/SEOUL, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor Co is at loggerheads with its Chinese partner over efforts to cut supplier costs, as they grapple with cut-throat competition and the impact of a stand-off between Beijing and Seoul, four people familiar with the dispute said.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Global airlines are meeting under a storm pattern of trade tensions, rising oil prices and a two-month-old grounding of the Boeing Co 19453 MAX jetliner - threatening to put a halt to five years of strong profits in the cut-throat air travel industry.
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Not if it wants privacy to be the clear blue water that differentiates its brand in an era of increasingly cut-throat and cut-price Android -powered smartphone competition that's serving up much the same features at a lower up-front price thanks to all the embedded data-suckers.
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It's a reaction to cut-throat competition for good jobs in an economy that isn't as robust as it was a few years ago and when home-ownership - long seen as a near-requirement for marriage in China - is increasingly unattainable in major cities as apartment prices have soared.
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"Between the cut-throat job market and the crippling college debt that continues to grow in America, there's never been more pressure for our drinkers when entering the real world," writes Daniel Blake, Senior Director of Value Brands at Natural Light parent company Anheuser-Busch in a statement.
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For being one of the most powerful real estate magnates in New York's cut-throat market, Mr. Ratner managed to preserve a reputation for being "one of the good guys", said Diane Coffey, a managing director at boutique investment bank PJ Solomon, who has known him for four decades.
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Global airlines have converged on Seoul for a summit this weekend under a storm pattern of trade tensions, rising oil prices and a two-month-old grounding of the Boeing Co 737 MAX jetliner - threatening to put a halt to five years of strong profits in the cut-throat air travel industry.
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Zac's songs from this period, like "Split" and "Cut Throat" and "Black Blood" captured a world that felt crushingly mundane and extraordinarily alienating in his terse, finely wrought way; his music is an integral part of my youth, as it is for countless others, and for that I will always be unbelievably grateful.
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The us-versus-them mentality of cut-throat politics is the game Democrats played to pass former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama22019 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 0,000 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
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In the space of eight months, Long Island, NY's Bermudez went from future featherweight title contender to being in a position where he may have to win his next fight to remain on the UFC roster in the current trend of the promotion's cut-throat approach to maintaining its pool of fighters.
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"The reason that handset companies are so focused on wearables and other accessories, is that accessories have always been a high-margin opportunity and with the smartphone market becoming so cut-throat it's hard to have high margins and accessories are a massive opportunity," Ian Fogg, head of mobile at IHS, told CNBC by phone.
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The San Francisco-based company's culture has been evident in hostile interactions with city officials over the years, threats to journalists by a senior executive, its haste to remove critical drivers from the app, and a blog post last month from a former employee who recounted a workplace of sexual harassment and cut-throat competition.
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Siemens is leaving behind the business where revenues and profit have collapsed due to plummeting demand and cut-throat competition from rivals including Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and General Electric Co. During the first three months of the year revenue at the division fell 4 percent, although the adjusted operating profit recovered due to a strong contribution from services.
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If you were a shrinking wallflower then you could walk straight back out the door on a career on the floor, but if you loved cut-throat aggression, had quick numeracy and could stand up for yourself in a confrontation, then this was not only a highly lucrative job but was also a lot of fun.
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Every one of them is filled with sentences and imagery that have the same shivery resonance as Cinderella's glass slipper or Sleeping Beauty's spindle, but they're all original to Oyeyemi: a wooden puppet with its strings slashed like a cut throat; a rose that kills its gardener with "a small precise puncture"; a marshland full of drowned corpses that becomes its own city.
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China's state firms made profits of 1.13 trillion yuan ($169.99 billion) in the first half of the year, down 8.5 percent on the year, with total liabilities up 17.8 percent to 83.55 trillion yuan, according to the Ministry of Finance, Amid concerns about plunging profits, soaring debt and chronic inefficiency, China's reform programme is aimed at eliminating duplication, waste and "cut-throat competition" between firms with nearly identical business structures.
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I mean, that NBC Olympics team, that is a massive machine, and I have to say it was great to have ... The one thing I do miss about not being at a broadcast network is that esprit de corps, you know, that sense that everybody's kinda working together for ... I was going to say for the common good, which I don't know if you can actually say that in television, which is pretty damn cut-throat.
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Now that Dell is sending Intel more money per PC shipped, the PC maker now has three options: 1) it can raise prices, thereby making its offerings less competitive in a cut-throat PC marketplace where anyone with a screwdriver and a credit card can start a PC assembly shop, 2) it can eat the cost increase and see its own margins suffer (and its stock price get hammered), or 3) it can start squeezing the rest of the component makers that provide its PC parts (i.e.
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