Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tobacco industry, used to harsh reports from the Surgeon General, tried to blunt the latest attack with newspaper ads saying that "enough is enough." Said Brennan Dawson, a spokeswoman for the Tobacco Institute: "The report represents an escalation in the antismoking campaign." Surgeon General Koop certainly hopes so. His stated goal is to make the U.S. a "smoke-free society by the year...
...Perkins to the crowd of reporters that provides a constant heckling chorus. The plot is imaginative but plausible, just a half- step beyond today's headlines. When the power workers' union goes on strike to protest Perkins' economic plans, soccer stadiums are plunged into darkness and the nation into harsh second thoughts about the new regime. Later, to dramatize his views on disarmament, Perkins arranges to have a nuclear weapon dismantled on live TV. "I once tried middle of the road," he tells an aide. "I was knocked down by traffic in both directions...
Ruthless Khmer Rouge guerrillas impose a harsh life on 60,000 Kampucheans warehoused in four refugee camps in eastern Thailand. The practice of Buddhism is banned, marriages are permitted only with the consent of the Khmer Rouge cadres, and education is restricted to recitation of Communist tracts. But those who are stuck in the Thailand camps are the lucky ones...
...Harvard devote endowment funds to an ethically questionable, not to mention financially risky, hostile takeover for no other purpose than to quickly turn a profit, but they did it over a company in which they were a major shareholder. This same company, RJR-Nabisco, has not only received harsh criticism and censure for agressive and unethical business practices in many Asian and Third World nations but is also the fourth largest investor in the apartheid state of South Africa...
...take six weeks of training in such subjects as personal budgeting, pest control and basic home repairs. A system of fines is imposed on residents who break the rules. "Being poor doesn't give you the right to be dirty or lazy," she says. Though the bylaws seem downright harsh, in six years only five families have been evicted for breaking them...