Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight revolves around union demands that Caterpillar match the terms offered U.A.W. members by Deere & Co., the Illinois farm-equipment manufacturer, including higher wages and broader health benefits. Caterpillar says it cannot afford to grant those terms because of the brutal competition it faces from abroad...
...world of corporate politics can be brutal to people just starting out in the world. One law firm admitted that they only hire partners' children. One homey women's magazine (think Good Housekeeping, Redbook, etc.) almost hired Beth, but before they could call and offer the job, their evil corporation made them take someone else. "We really like you," the woman said on the phone, "We just had to take the vice president's niece...
Deep Cover takes on the volatile ethical and moral issues that challenge inner city communities and lays them out, intelligently and with brutal honesty. As Stevens reflects on his actions, he turns to the audience with a compelling challenge: "what would you do?" he asks. Although it's a formidable question to ponder, the viewers have no choice. Duke's film makes Stevens' dilemma remarkably immediate...
Hockey players can be brutal on the rink, but at the bargaining table they have been the softies of the sports world. No longer: last week the N.H.L. Players Association voted 560 to 4 to stage the first major strike in the league's 75-year history. The skate-out occurred a week before the Stanley Cup playoffs -- the most lucrative games of the year -- were to begin...
Even by the brutal standards of the Middle East, it was a savage assault. As midnight approached, four Arab men stole into an Israeli army camp and, using a huge ax and several knives, hacked three soldiers to death. Assuming the killers were Palestinians from the occupied territories, Jews at first saw the attack as yet another terrorist engagement that fell within the unwritten rules of the region's slow-burn war. But then came the stunner: the alleged assailants, apprehended last month, were not aggrieved residents of the territories but citizens of Israel -- Arab citizens, "our Arabs," as Jewish...