Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Greenspan defends the drastic medicine prescribed by Proposition 13. Says he: "Such brutal sledgehammer techniques turn out to be necessary to prevent government from continuing to increase its share of overall economic activity." Washington University Economist Murray L. Weidenbaum agrees: "If government doesn't cut rates, people have...
...wanton and brutal murder of unarmed white civilian women and children in Zaïre [May 29] should give all the liberal do-gooders, who are blindly supporting the black terrorists and advocating black majority rule for South Africa and Rhodesia, cause for concern...
...wake of what he wrought, Jarvis left pain as well as tax relief. California officials faced some brutal choices as they scrambled to figure out how to live with budgets now scheduled to shrink significantly with the beginning of the new fiscal year on July 1, when Proposition 13 takes effect (unless one of the five court challenges that have already been made proves successful...
...everyone loves Marseille, but to its aficionados it is one of the world's most beguiling cities: brutal, beautiful indestructible. M.F.K. Fisher, who first visited Marseille in 1929 and has been returning there as often as possible ever since, is haunted by the place. She calls the city insolite, an indefinable French word meaning, well, indefinable. Yet she does manage to catch the essential, elusive Marseille: its smells (mostly fish, wine and paint); its sounds (church bells, ships' sirens, the howl of the mistral); its institutions, terrain, architecture and people...
...message is simple: The Palestinians are not just "PLO lunatics," but are embittered refugees who have resorted to terrorist warfare out of mounting frustration. Although it might seem not only brutal but futile for the Palestinians to resort to terrorist action directed toward helpless Israeli kibbutzniks, one must realize that many Palestinian commandos have sadly concluded that 30 years of international neglect have made such terrorist action necessary to cry out their cause...