Word: brutally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mulcahy also discovered that Terpil had provided arms, explosives and torture devices under a $3.2 million contract with Idi Amin Dada's brutal government in Uganda. Terpil had once bragged about testing a new poison on someone in Uganda whom he had no reason to kill He also told two New York City undercover police posing as arms buyers, ""If you're knocking off Americans, it will cost you 40% more...
...longer the invincible titans of air transport, major trunk carriers like Pan American, United, Braniff and TWA are now fighting off brutal competition from hosts of new airlines, some with only a few planes and a quick-thinking team of marketing men. Their business strategy: a sort of fast-food style of jam-'em-in, fly-'em-off air service. The upstarts have been spawned in large part by the airline deregulation drive that began during Gerald Ford's presidency and is likely to be accelerated by the Reagan Administration...
This is all standard equipment, but the technicians responsible for the Bond films' felicities-car chases, aerobatics, all the sophisticated paraphernalia of Saturday-matinee thrills-have devised some splendid optional features for For Your Eyes Only. There is a funny-brutal pentathlon of alpine sports: cross-country skiing with hired assassins; a two-man ski jump with the competitors gouging each other in midair; downhill racing at gunpoint; a bobsled run on skis; ice hockey using players as pucks. Director Glen has kept the plot moving briskly, and, in several action sequences, clipped a frame or two from within...
...however, the pugnacious Chirac blasted Mitterrand's nationalization and economic programs. The self-proclaimed leader of the center-right declared sarcastically, "France is not a laboratory for apprentices to try out their contradictory and irreversible experiments." It was the opening salvo of what promises to be a brutal electoral battle, in which Chirac's Gaullists and the remnants of Giscard's U.D.F. will attempt to retain their parliamentary majority and block Mitterrand's reform plans...
Responding to the attack, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared bitterly: "I hope that when [the soldiers'] murderers have been tried and convicted, no one will claim that they are entitled to special privileges . . . for having done cold, callous, brutal murder." Though opposition M.P.s have begun calling for a more flexible approach to the Northern Ireland problem, Thatcher's tough stance on the prison protest still had strong backing from the British public: in a recent poll, only 4% believed that the prisoners should have political status...