Word: brutalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Smash the looking glass to bits But take care not to slash your wrists Your brutal death has all been planned, My precious waif of Wonderland...
...around $100 a vote) provoked some grumbling from sixth-place finisher Lamar Alexander. (Alexander's poor showing and vanishing war chest have reportedly led him to abandon the race.) Second-place man Steve Forbes spent even more, a lavish $2 million that included that ultimate enticement in the brutal Iowa summer, an air-conditioned tent. It may have been worth every penny, since it establishes him as the alternative candidate. His campaign quickly tried to capitalize on the results, pointing out that close to 70 percent of the voters didn't want Bush. Of course, looking at it that...
...Caucasus -- with their political freedom. Although Moscow has admitted losing only 10 troops in a week of fighting and has vowed to drive Islamic insurgents out of Dagestan within two weeks, Russian reinforcements pouring into the region amid intensified fighting Friday suggest a longer and more brutal conflict. Back in Moscow, there?s widespread speculation that President Boris Yeltsin will use the Dagestan fighting as a pretext to declare a state of emergency -? which would allow him to cling to power by canceling December?s parliamentary elections and next summer?s presidential poll. "It won?t necessarily happen...
...victim: Sergei Stepashin, a bumbling but loyal bureaucrat who served a full three months as prime minister. Of course, with a secessionist rebellion underway in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, there may be some good reasons for getting rid of Stepashin. After all, he authored Moscow?s clumsily brutal, yet ineffective, response to the uprising in neighboring Chechnya five years ago. But Yeltsin has never had any problem signing off on a little butchery in the Caucasus, and Stepashin had just returned from Washington having secured an IMF loan. "This was the most inexplicable of all Yeltsin?s decisions...
When Kevin Ross was a stockbroker in Phoenix, Ariz., and the pressure got to be too much, he would slip into a dark room and drape a wet washcloth over his forehead. He wasn't playing with his own money in those days, but the stress could be pretty brutal nonetheless. Then Ross had an epiphany: embrace the pressure and go for broke. Last February he gave up his six-figure income and moved to San Francisco to become a day trader...