Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...historical cycles are not inevitable. They depend on the strengths and frailties of those who become repositories of the hope for change. In a democracy, successful reformers must have, above all, the backbone to convey brutal facts unflinchingly. Especially now: America's current plight has been aggravated by a willful refusal to inhale unpleasant truths about the deficit, about racial divisions, about defense cuts and conversion of military facilities, about schools and about the workplace...
...also encountered situations like this before: a brutal serial killer is out there stalking young women -- in this case, blind young women -- and baffled law-enforcement officials are in denial. No, the latest disappearance could not possibly represent his seventh depredation. No way could Helena (Uma Thurman), who, although blind, is a witness in the case, be his next target...
...years, directors now want to eliminate a total of 120,000 jobs during the decade. A major goal: to slash GM's labor costs of nearly $2,360 per car, which is almost $800 more than Ford's and $500 more than Chrysler's. "It's going to be brutal," warns a GM director. "If the unions won't cooperate, GM will have to play real hardball. We don't even have the luxury of thinking about a product strategy. We aren't going to be thinking great thoughts. GM has a three-year mission to restore its financial soundness...
...start; her high-pitched squeals obstruct a gradual intensification of mood. Instead of the sexually jaded 30-year-old character whose bitterness would seem plausible, Cohen comes off as a virginal 17-year-old who cannot hold her end of the powerful dialogue. She is unconvincing when delivering brutal lines like "You middle-class Black bastard. Forget your social-working mother for a few seconds and let's knock stomachs. Clay, you liver-lipped white...
...homages -- even though two recent visits to Beijing showed how hard it remains to reconcile the past and present. Emperor Akihito, the first Japanese sovereign ever to set foot in the Middle Kingdom, was constrained by domestic politics to stop short of apologizing for Imperial Japan's brutal 1931-45 occupation of much of China. Many Chinese still painfully recall the period's atrocities, but Akihito, to appease Japanese rightists who had protested his trip, could not go to the extent of asking for national forgiveness...