Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...survived until this year by giving away the store--lightly restyling and updating its 12- and 15-year-old workhorses such as Buick Centurys and Chevrolet Corsicas and underpricing the competition. The company also went on a brutal cost-cutting crusade throughout its production system, beating up suppliers for price rebates and consolidating 27 separate purchasing organizations into one worldwide group that "commonized" such once disparate auto components as braking, air-conditioning and radio systems. Under the new purchasing program, for example, instead of buying 123 different steering columns, GM will stock 50. The company can still produce totally different...
...being quite frightened as a child when I saw footage of dogs attacking children during civil rights demonstrations or when the terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan was portrayed in movies. I couldn't sleep for weeks after viewing movies like "North and South" or "Roots" because of the brutal depictions of slavery. Like many children, I applied what I saw to my own reality. I lay awake for hours imagining that the sick men dressed in sheets on television would invade and burn my home in suburban St. Louis. But I appeased my fears by convincing myself that those...
...evening of his brutal encounter, Lenard and two friends pedaled from the Stateway Garden public housing projects to the edge of Bridgeport, where they hoped to get some free air for their bikes and snatch a quick game of basketball on a court that sits in the shadows of Comiskey Park. After the game, Lenard was surrounded and attacked by several teenagers. Within 48 hours, three suspects had been arrested. Freed on bail, all have denied involvement in the incident. But the fact that police were led to them by Bridgeport residents, several of whom are white, bespeaks an outrage...
...rules governing which avenues minority residents can walk on, which parks their children may play in and what time they must be off the streets. The rules are enforced subtly--steely glares, selective ticketing of cars, storekeepers who follow shoppers from aisle to aisle--and in more brutal fashion: racial epithets, trash thrown on lawns, windows shattered and beatings of the sort administered to Lenard Clark. "Here the No. 1 issue is color," says Curly Cohen, director of the Bridgeport Volunteer Center. "If you don't learn the rules fast, you could be dead...
...part, Arafat has used tough tactics. He dallied on arresting activists, reinforcing Netanyahu's belief that Arafat was cheating on the accords. Catering to his own extremists, he helped unleash a brutal spasm of violence last September when Netanyahu, asserting Israeli authority in East Jerusalem, opened a tunnel near Islamic holy sites in the Old City. When Netanyahu was ready to dicker over withdrawal from Hebron in earnest, Arafat procrastinated in hopes of gaining more concessions...