Word: harshness
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...Alaska Airlines accident, which probably occurred because a mechanical failure caused the pilots to lose control of the plane, cast a harsh light on the agency's failings as well as the airline's. After the crash, the FAA's officials found that the agency had not fulfilled its fundamental responsibility of supervising Alaska. It uncovered 150 cases in which aircraft maintenance could not be documented. The Alaska crash came less than a year after the General Accounting Office had sharply criticized the effectiveness of the ATOS and suggested that the FAA not expand the program until it was changed...
...harsh weather did not prevent a large crowd from hearing Faust speak, who said she was "honored by everyone's presence despite the harsh weather...
Those who argue that the Palestinians' real problem is not Arafat but rather a pitiless Israeli government are not wrong. However, they overlook the harsh reality of the situation. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an asymmetric confrontation between the most powerful nation in the Middle East and the weakest. Any attempt to face up to Israel using violence will only bring more severe repercussions for the Palestinians--a truth to which the death toll can attest...
...Details of women trafficking are hard to come by. Like the drug trade, it takes place in a shadowy world where victims and witnesses are intimidated into silence. But dozens of interviews by Time with investigators, traffickers and women freed from bondage paint a harsh picture of medieval abuse and cruelty: during off hours women are kept in cellars, sleeping on the floor or on tables, surviving on fast food. Those who balk are raped, beaten or burned with cigarettes. A 19-year-old Moldovan woman rescued recently from Kosovo reported not seeing daylight for a month. "I never thought...
SPARE THE ROD Preschool kids who receive harsh physical punishments from parents tend to display excessive aggression as schoolchildren, says a study at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Researchers find that these youngsters end up feeling humiliated, frustrated by their unmet needs and unworthy of care. Later they mimic their parents' model of violence to cope with social situations...