Word: brutalize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While triumph is part of our history, so too is the economic and social conditions that fostered the brutal gang rape of two mentally retarded children...
What theSpark.com has done is taken the kind of boring career indicator foisted upon high school students by their guidance counselors and turned it into a revelation loaded with the kind of brutal honesty you only get these days in the locker room or on Conan. Dominant extroverts include The Politician (who is "manipulative" with a "propensity for cheating") and the Performer; submissive introverts include the brooding Mastermind and the rather pathetic Helper Who Finds Lost Children Over the Internet. A personal favorite is the Dreamer (submissive introverted abstract feeler): "reserved and imaginative, most everyone thinks you're a loser...
...supposed to do: throw billions of dollars at a big new idea, in this case the Internet. That funding gave everyone with a business plan the ability to test it. Now we're finding out which plans work best. This shakeout was as unavoidable as it is brutal--and the reason high-risk investing is best left to those who can afford to lose. The problem is that people who couldn't afford to lose gambled anyway...
Overall, it was a brutal, penalty-laden contest with 30 infractions in all called on the day. A fight nearly broke out at the end of the first period as defenseman Tim Stay and Westerman nearly dropped the gloves. Stay was rushing to the defense of Dominic Moore, whom Union had selected for assault...
Sydney meant fun and games for Venus and her kid sister Serena as they danced to the doubles crown, but it meant brutal pressure for a woman named Cathy Freeman, who opened the Games by ceremonially lighting the cauldron and then, with the weight of her country upon her, came through sensationally in her footrace to become the first Aboriginal Australian ever to win an individual gold medal...