Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country just beginning to debate universal health care, Americans have long wondered how their allies across the Atlantic have managed to enjoy government benefits far beyond U.S. dreams. Now Western Europeans are discovering a brutal truth: they can not afford them either. Everywhere on the Continent, the public and private welfare system is under assault. Governments are seeking to cut back womb-to-tomb protection for workers and the jobless, for mothers and children, for pensioners, the sick and the disabled. Companies pressed by global competition are trimming benefits. The steadily expanding safety net that had been...
...fact that ultimately, they are not even sure they know themselves the way they know each other. Albee once said of the conclusion of Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf, "we must try to claw our way into compassion." The play begins and ends in darkness, and after the brutal glare of judgment intervening, it's an act of mercy to gesture towards a time to heal and recollect ourselves...
...until March 31, his self-imposed deadline for withdrawal. But U.S. credibility is undermined by the ambivalence of the American public. Self-imposed deadlines, while reassuring to the electorate, also tell Aidid how much longer he must wait until he is free of American harassment and can resume the brutal status quo ante...
...August," a family travels to an Italian castle owned by a Caribbean writer. The writer has remodeled certain parts of the castle, and thus metaphorically left his mark on Europe, but there are deeper and more ancient powers in the castle that assert themselves in the swift and brutal denouement. In "The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow," a Colombian woman goes into a Parisian hospital to be treated for a minor cut and is never seen again. The protagonist of "I Only Came to Use the Phone" ends up in a Kafkaesque insane asylum. The two children...
...politics aside, Kelly's request reflects a brutal truth: the United States is failing to protect its citizens. In almost every large American city, some people live in constant fear; some parents force their children to sleep in bathtubs to avoid stray bullets from armed gangs' ongoing gun battles...