Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infamous June 1995 meeting with the tough-talking software titan and his cohorts, "I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed," the browser whiz kid told Justice Department lawyers. But as the Microsoft antitrust trial enters its third day, Redmond attorneys continue to argue that brutal mafia-speak is no vice in the cuttthroat software industry. "Antitrust laws," said Microsoft counsel John Warden, "are not a code of civility...
...idea that such a brutal dictator as Pinochet should be claiming diplomatic immunity I think for most people in this country would be pretty gutwrenching stuff," Trade Secretary Peter Mandelson said in an interview with the BBC Sunday...
Cruise missiles were the silent partner in the high-stakes diplomacy going on last week to force Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to halt his brutal siege of Kosovo and negotiate with the province's ethnic Albanians. The U.S. has already used its arsenal of air- and sea-launched cruise missiles to turn out Baghdad's lights during the Gulf War, retaliate against terrorists and assassins, and force the Serbs to the peace table in Dayton, Ohio. Now Serbia and Yugoslav President Milosevic are in the crosshairs again. If the massacres of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo do not stop, NATO warns...
Meanwhile, parents seeking upscale educational toys these days can find them at newcomers Noodle Kidoodle and Imaginarium. Little wonder that Toys "R" Us' market share has declined to 20%. The competition is so brutal these days that the company's chief executive, Robert Nakasone, told TIME in an interview at his Paramus, N.J., offices that "when you earn a dollar, it's got someone else's blood...
...fanatical about this. He doesn't paint, polish, grind or otherwise fiddle about with his metal. It rusts naturally and bears the marks of its making, the scrapes, even the claw marks of the grabs that hoisted the plates. And yet these traces, which one might think would be brutal, acquire--given the enormous scale of the pieces--a beauty that almost amounts to delicacy. The run and layering of red oxidation reminds you of Abstract Expressionist painting. More than that, it recalls nature itself: there are moments, particularly in the double-ellipse pieces, when walking between the rusty walls...