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Word: brutality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holidays are brutal," says Flo Mondanaro, a third-grade teacher in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., who is trying to curb an expensive Beanie Baby craze in her classroom. "But the issue of kids' understanding the value of a dollar comes up year round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents' Guide: Money Counts | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...deed. But establish this policy with them ASAP. The only way he could possibly be upset and justified is if you saw him and didn't say anything and then he saw one of your friends and they told him what was up in the most brutal way possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAYING NO TO LOVE | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...military dictatorship responded to the resistance with brutal violence. The Summer 1993 issue of Earth Island Journal reports that a single Ogoni demonstration in 1990 resulted in the destruction of 495 homes and the murder of 80 people by the Nigerian Mobile Police. Since then, scores of villages have been raided and hundreds more Ogoni murdered. Ogoniland has been shut off and placed under martial...

Author: By Shai M. Sachs, | Title: Now's the Time to Divest From Shell | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

What is going on? It's hard to imagine that in the U.S., the most advanced country in the world, we are still faced with heinous crimes of hate like the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, the young gay man in Wyoming [NATION, Oct. 26]. We must stop killing others because they are different from us. The religious right should be embarrassed by its claims and advertisements that gays can "change" to be heterosexuals. I hope Shepard's family knows that he was not "sick" but a victim of "sick" thinkers. SAMUEL LOUIS MORRIS Greenville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...South Carolina, Governor David Beasley (R) didn't have worse enemies than his former friends. Victorious challenger Jim Hodges (D) used testimonials of state Republican officials refusing to vote for Beasley, calling him unscrupulous and a liar. Brutal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Watch | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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