But who really wins and loses in this cutthroat set-up?
This can be a cutthroat place.
Rather, it is the instantaneous micro-to-global combat of Twitter that is setting the pace (insanely fast) and practice (cutthroat attack) of 2012.
In a cutthroat industry where success hinges on a tenuous balance of buzz and whim, Mr. Morr has shown a knack for setting up in happening neighborhoods right before they happen.
That sets up a cutthroat competition in which Mr. Reed shows a nice ear for absurdist humor.
Silicon Valley, a sitcom scheduled to debut in the US on 6 April, is set in the cutthroat world of California internet start-ups and venture capitalists.
Last year's winner for best narrative feature film, Li Yang's "Blind Shaft," set in a cutthroat world of Chinese coal miners, suggested a small-scale Asian answer to "Goodfellas".
Megan Abbott's thrillers are explorations, she says, of "women, power and aggression". Her latest, "You Will Know Me," is set in the cutthroat world of girls' gymnastics and was published this summer, just before the Olympics.
In somewhat nefarious fashion, he sets up a cutthroat competition for the accounts position by telling both designated office weasel Pete Campbell and easygoing Ken Cosgrove that he has the job.
Steve Rutter, managing director of the Park Slope office of the Corcoran Group, said Brooklyn had long set the standard for cutthroat competition.
Set in the apparently cutthroat world of turn-of-the-century London magic shows, the story pits the jocular Robert Angier against the inscrutable Alfred Borden.
