Word: brutalize
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...prices since the Persian Gulf crisis broke out sealed his doom. Said one movement leader: "From government officers to ricksha pullers, all were out in the street. It was phenomenal." It will also be phenomenal if democracy manages to heal a country that was born in a brutal secession from Pakistan in 1971 and has stumbled from coup to coup since...
...Crimson may have made a few mistakes in its time. And it's true, the paper may not arrive on time every single morning. But unlike members of the Harvard Lampoon, we've never stooped to murder. More precisely, Lampoon members have committed a brutal act of vegicide, with premeditation and malice aforethought...
...killings in Montreal were not random, nor were they isolated. That unusually well-publicized bloodshed was just one expression of a pervasive norm of violence against women. Although the brutal slaying of 14 women may seem like an extreme form of violence, it is not more extreme than the wife-beating, child sexual abuse and rape that make up the fabric of daily life but don't often make the nightly news...
...brutal and terrifying act. Its occurrence in a university setting brought widespread attention to the ugly reality of violence against women. What was a senseless tragedy can be an important turning point if we use our remembrance of that event to renew and invigorate our efforts to understand and remove the causes of violence against one another...
...something of a fast track. In a brutal economic climate for magazines, Utne Reader's circulation has tripled in the past three years, to 204,000, making it one of the nation's fastest growing periodicals. Ad pages climbed more than 160% over the same period. The Reader hawks products like Birkenstock sandals, Gevalia coffee and "socially responsible" mutual funds while banning alcohol...