Word: brutalization
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Mike and thousands like him are stark evidence of America's brutal indifference to the mentally ill. The care meted out to the severely disturbed is a "disaster by any measure used," concludes a new report issued by the Public Citizen Health Research Group and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). "Not since the 1820s have so many mentally ill individuals lived untreated in public shelters, on the streets and in jails." Up to 30% of the estimated 500,000 homeless in the U.S. suffer from serious mental disorders, mostly schizophrenia and manic depression...
While Washington fiddles, the faltering U.S. economy has started imposing hardships that recall the severe slumps of the 1970s and early 1980s. Major American companies are slicing costs to the bone and declaring sweeping layoffs. "It's going to be brutal. Many businesses are broke, but won't admit it yet," says Irwin Jacobs, a Minneapolis financier. Chase Manhattan, the second largest U.S. bank, is letting go 5,000 employees, or 12% of its work force, in a struggle to remain solvent. McDonnell Douglas, the No. 1 defense contractor, is slashing its payroll by 17,000 workers...
...Gulf: 12 of the 23 members of that organization (representing a majority of the population of the Arab world) condemned the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and demanded that Iraq withdraw immediately and unconditionally. In addition, the League called upon Iraq to pay reparations to the Kuwaiti people for its brutal and wanton destruction of that peaceful nation...
...reader. Thernstrom avoids overblown prose, and her work is mimetic. She cannot explain the reasons for the egregious crime, because, she suggests, there is not always an answer to why. Given the topic and the author's near-brutal realism, The Dead Girl at times reads like an extended obituary. But the work never fails to be engrossing and rewarding...
That would be a breathtaking plunge. The 500-day Shatalin program would reverse the basic aim of the Bolshevik revolution and Stalin's brutal overlay of collectivism by creating a nation of shopkeepers -- or more accurately, a federation of republics with economies built on private businesses, individually owned farms, entrepreneurial investments, and stock markets trading shares in competitive companies...