Word: brutally
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...Libya by outside forces. Sadat is known to have lamented that he did not seize the chance to do so in the early '70s, before Gaddafi consolidated his hold on power. Now such aggression would court major risks. Attacking Libya from Egypt, for example, would involve a brutal campaign across vast expanses of desert; with their plentiful arms stockpile, Libyans might do better than anyone expected...
Western Europe's unemployment problem is the result not only of the economic slowdown caused by nearly a decade of brutal oil-price increases; it reflects a basic structural change: the waning of Europe's ability to compete in traditional manufacturing industries. The postwar years of cheap energy, cheap labor off the farm, low social-welfare overheads and huge unsatisfied consumer demand are gone. "There is no easy answer," says John Martin, a manpower expert at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris...
...brutal re-emergence of the Red Army Faction shook West German authorities out of the complacent belief that the nation's leftist terrorism had largely been brought under control. From a peak of 150 hard-core members four years ago, the Red Army Faction has dwindled to about 30 as a result of arrests, deaths in clashes with police and desertions from the cause. Despite their limited numbers, say West German officials, the terrorists want to exploit the wave of protest against the NATO decision to deploy U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe...
Leonard's victory now confirms him as a remarkable champion. He is a strange mix for a fighter, a combination of peerless skills and yearnings to transcend the brutal arena in which he displays them. When he returned from Montreal in 1976, he vowed not to be a professional fighter, preferring to go to college. But the endorsements that he had hoped would support him after his ballyhooed triumph never materialized-white athletes end up on Wheaties boxes, he bitterly asserted, blacks do not. So he took to the ring. For years, he counted his money and waited...
...could have returned to the relative comfort of Minnesota. Instead, in 1931 Wilkins joined the N.A.A.C.P. staff, at a time when lynching was still a threat in the U.S. "We had to provide physical security first," he said. At great risk, he investigated brutal conditions in Mississippi delta labor camps, and his report prompted Congress to set up minimum standards and wages for all flood-control laborers. In 1934 he succeeded W.E.B. DuBois as editor of the N.A.A.C.P. magazine, the Crisis...