Word: brutalize
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...indiscriminate "sequester" of funds, the story went, would be so politically devastating as to scare the government into facing its fiscal responsibilities. That fantasy, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act five years ago, projected a balanced budget by fiscal 1991, which begins Oct. 1. But the brutal fact is this: the nation will face a deficit of about $200 billion even if the cranky negotiations that dragged into the weekend produce a feasible deficit-reduction package...
...Like the brutal rape of the Central Park jogger and the murder of Yusuf Hawkins in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn last year, Watkins' death quickly assumed a larger symbolic meaning. Outside the city it confirmed what most Americans already believed: New York is an exciting but dangerous place. Among New Yorkers it reinforced the spreading conviction that the city has spun out of control. A growing sense of vulnerability has been deepened by the belief that deadly violence, once mostly confined to crime-ridden ghetto neighborhoods that the police wrote off as free-fire zones, is now lashing...
...power of finding common ground, though. Not only does common ground pay dividends on the name game scoreboard, it can also be a way of starting many future conversations when the games are over. But by now, the games are starting to become more competitive and even a little brutal...
...academic success. But the real victors would be children of the poor and the hard-pressed urban middle class, who now have no alternative other than attending their crumbling local public school. And if some publicly run schools fail to compete successfully, they would go out of business. A brutal system perhaps, but one guaranteed to shake the torpor out of American education...
...taxes and the outrageous cost of living, violent crime is gnawing at the soul of the city that thinks of itself as the embodiment of American energy and creativity. The random nature of such crime spares no one. As the case against three of the alleged participants in the brutal rape and assault of a young female jogger in Central Park last year drew to a close, a 33-year-old advertising executive was shot to death while returning a phone call on a quiet Greenwich Village street...