Word: heartlessly
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...this worked? To research my book, The Heartless Stone, I traveled in 2004 and '05 to Africa, where diamonds are mined in conditions that range from the orderly to the horrific, and found virtually no oversight of the violence-prone alluvial-mining sites. Many stones have made their way out of the jungle and into suburban malls via somebody's lower intestinal tract. Even when the diamonds are not smuggled or traded for guns, the wages for the miners can be outrageously unfair. I met a team of diggers in the Central African Republic who were routinely paid...
...happen only once in 25 years. Howard told ABC-TV's Landline program that the point of the assistance is to help farmers "keep food on the table and to meet normal living expenses." Given the hardship in many parts of the bush, urban taxpayers can hardly be called heartless or stingy. In any case, it's a fat time for government revenue collection, so a helping hand is not causing general resentment. Not yet, anyway...
...really is full of pneumatic tubes and you’ll never have to leave your car to do investment banking again. As the summer went on, the negative stereotypes that we had formed at Harvard continued to crumble. Gutless humanities concentrators always accuse the industry of being heartless. But this misconception was soon debunked when D.A. helped a six-year-old girl open up her first savings account. And she didn’t just reach up to the teller window with her big brown eyes and her pink piggy bank full of pennies; she reached out with...
...Perhaps her book should have been called Heartless." HILLARY CLINTON, Democratic Senator from New York, in response to Coulter...
...their suffering, saying they are "reveling in their status as celebrities... I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' death so much." The comments caused an all-too-expected firestorm, even ensnaring Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who should have known better. "Perhaps her book should have been called Heartless," Senator Clinton said. "I know a lot of the widows and family members who lost loved ones on 9/11. They never wanted to be a member of a group that is defined by the tragedy of what happened...