Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through the measure on the Senate floor next month; and Bill Bradley, the New Jersey Democrat who for five years has been building the case for reform. Lobbyists representing interests ranging from real estate syndicators to restaurant owners vowed to descend on Capitol Hill to do battle. Acknowledging that brutal struggles lie ahead, Bradley, a former New York Knicks basketball star, warned, "Unlike many games I have played in, there are five periods. We've only finished the third." But even former skeptics were saying that reform now has the momentum. "Two weeks ago, tax reform was hanging...
Reagan's hyperbolic rhetoric in support of a policy which condones this hemisphere's most brutal fighting force only amplifies the moral emptiness of the policy to a deafening roar. Last week at the Kennedy School, even former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane expressed doubts about funding the Contras as long as their terrorist activities continued...
...never know precisely what Waldheim knew and did in Yugoslavia when he served in the command center of a notoriously brutal Nazi general, but we do know that Waldheim has, for more than 40 years, lied about his role and we do know that the unit he helped command killed thousands of partisans and unarmed hostages in Yugoslavia and helped deport thousands more Greek Jews to the death camps...
...gone to hell without him. Bruce Wayne, nearing 50, is bored and angry; he drinks, he curses, he gets grayer. The cowl was hung up for good when Robin came to some unspecified violent end in the service of his mentor. But the city is under seige by the brutal gang called the "Mutants," who "do murders" for kicks, and Commisioner Gordon, four weeks from 70, is being forced into retirement by petty bureauacrats...
...other reforms that Botha started announcing in January 1985, this one was designed to ease the racial tensions that have rocked South Africa's black townships during the past year and a half. Some 1,450 people have been killed in clashes with police and by fire bombings and brutal "necklacings," in which young radicals place gasoline-filled tires around the necks of suspected traitors to the antiapartheid cause and burn them alive. But the anger is deeply rooted, and recently a new strain of violence has begun to emerge in the black communities. Groups of conservative blacks, angered...