Word: brutalize
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...have been easy for Soderburgh to pull one off. He could have given us an out-of-touch drug czar, a bunch of thuggish DEA types and a few innocent teens (preferably black teens) who get busted for doing a little weed and end up the victims of our brutal, racist criminal justice system. It would have been perfect--a movie whose only message was "legalize, legalize, legalize...
...enforcement efforts won't be anywhere near as brutal as those that came to light during the 1997 to '98 congressional hearings, which shamed the IRS into a full-scale reorganization. A kinder, gentler agency is now focused on service to taxpayers more than on enforcement. The shift has been so total, in fact, that the consensus within the agency and among tax professionals is that the IRS has got too lax--and tax cheats have got bolder...
...markets are deteriorating, and our company's performance even more so. Competition is brutal," Dieter Zetsche, Chrysler's new president, said at a news conference Monday in Detroit. "North American manufacturers are under pressure from imports and an incentive...
...Well, not quite. Situated in Burma's Shan state, less than a mile from the Chinese border, Mongla is ruled by a brutal heroin trafficker and has an unsavory reputation as a freewheeling center for gambling and prostitution. Yet, curiously, the Burmese regime is promoting it as a model town. Why? To find out, I hired a car and driver and set out for Mongla?the town that drugs built...
...Peter the Great. But today St. Petersburg is known among Russians mostly as the country's crime capital. Statistically, the image is wrong. There are more dangerous cities and places. But Petersburg has a deadly and infectious air of lawlessness and hopelessness. It is a town where murders are brutal and public--a deputy mayor hit by snipers, an opposition leader gunned down on her stairwell. The crimes are rarely solved...