Word: harshness
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...bridge of a Mediterranean cruise liner; in a downtown street in San Salvador; and last week at crowded air terminals in Rome and Vienna. Wherever he appeared, his victims, if they were not murdered outright, faced endless hours or days of anarchy and wrenching fear, often accompanied by harsh rantings about some strange and often incomprehensible political creed. Once again the terrorist, the sinister perpetrator of violence in the name of politics, showed himself to be, as the 19th century Russian Revolutionary Sergei Nechayev put it, "an implacable enemy of this world." What made the year different was the willingness...
...rocker who once announced to an indifferent world, "I want to get rich, get famous and get laid," has been drubbed by several professional relief outfits. There is much rivalry among charitable institutions, and some of the pros, smarting from Geldof s high visibility and hyperactivity, have had harsh words. By their protective reckoning, Geldof and his Aid outfit are good at grabbing attention, slow on detail work and chary of bailing out other agencies. "I'm not an accountant," huffs Geldof, who is nevertheless adept at running down stats, from the average number of berries constituting the daily diet...
...moves quickly, foreign aid, which makes up a third of Haiti's $480 million annual budget, may also dry up. The U.S. is now in the process of examining Haiti's human rights record as a precondition to releasing $56 million in aid earmarked for the country. Duvalier's harsh response to the recent protests was a "giant step backward," says a U.S. diplomat in Port-au-Prince. In an effort to make amends, former Foreign Minister Jean-Robert Estimé traveled to Washington last month to meet with State Department officials. The Duvalier government promptly announced that it was undertaking...
...Harsh words, but again containing some truth. In the best of times, property and casualty insurers, the kind that issue liability policies, rarely make much money on underwriting: the premiums collected have exceeded claims paid in only two of the past ten years. Most of their profits come from investing the premiums they collect. Five years ago, when the prime rate, keystone of the U.S. interest-rate structure, hit an incredible high of 21˝%, such investments paid off very, very well...
...discovery of the bodies was a wrenching twist for the families of the Challenger astronauts. It came as the finger pointing and recriminations inside NASA spilled into public view with harsh accusations by veteran astronauts that the space agency had repeatedly placed expediency over safety. Reeling, NASA administrators were forced to concede in congressional testimony that the shuttle program has been seriously set back, so much so that the entire space effort may require a thorough reorganization...