Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group had just filed suit in Federal District Court to block the plant. Helping the council in its fight is Ralph Nader, a longtime nemesis of GM, who was invited into the fray by area residents last year. Thus, by all appearances, the battle is a classic confrontation: a heartless corporation vs. a handful of citizens trying to preserve a way of life-which for many of them dates back to the turn of the century, when their immigrant ancestors arrived from Poland to make a new life for themselves in America...
Liberals are sure to portray some of the cuts, such as less generous unemployment compensation, as a heartless assault on the members of society who need help the most. Even those programs that seem eminently cuttable are vigorously defended by members of the "iron triangle" of federal spending: Government departments, special interest lobbyists and the staffs of congressional committees that pass on spending plans...
...crisis plaguing the T is too deep a problem to be solved with a quick influx of state money. Heartless as it sounds, only painful therapy-like a short shutdown of the system, even with the myriad problems it will cause the city-may sufice to end this recurrent problem...
...becomes as fierce and determined as Sir and, once he wins over his master's protege (Alison Carey in a wonderfully impish performance) and proclaims his independence, Sir is left flab-bergasted with nothing but his empty rhetoric on manners and tradition. Though proud, the revitalized Cocky is not heartless. He dreams of "a new beginning, a new game of new hope, fellowship and understanding." O, Noble Proletariat...
Tired of political parties too heartless to help the poor, scared of leaders hell-bent on the nation's and the world's destruction, and yet full of hope for a cooperative and peaceful future, we urge the rejection of Carter, Reagan and Anderson. The answer to the president's question is simple: Commoner and his Citizens' Party are the best choice, and they deserve support...