Word: mercilessly
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Precariousness is an essential element in the life of the entrepreneur, a French word now more associated with the much despised Anglo-Saxon "liberalism" and its merciless dog-eat-dog capitalism. But these days the best examples of the entrepreneurial spirit are hardly Anglo-Saxon: China, India, Korea, Chile, all rising and growing, even as France and much of Europe decline...
...dozens of towns and cities across the kingdom?don't think that your status as a visitor allows you to observe politely from the sidelines. Everyone, local or tourist, is fair game for a drenching. This may take the form of a genteel sprinkle, or a merciless soaking via bucket, water pistol, hose or even elephant...
Everyone, local or tourist, is fair game for a drenching. This may take the form of a genteel sprinkle, or a merciless soaking via bucket, water pistol, hose or even elephant. So don't go venturing onto the streets in your finest Prada, and find a watertight case for that digicam. For more information, visit tourismthailand.org
...players that the public matters, that there would be no lucrative contracts without it. Always an exclusive club, Australian cricket under him seems more insular than ever. One day, hopefully, Australians will tire of denigrating English sporting teams; their mocking of English cricketers since 1989 has been especially merciless. It was thus bewildering that at an awards ceremony in Melbourne last month, Ponting took offence at former England spinner Phil Tufnell's taped send-up of Australia's Ashes campaign. Ponting said he wouldn't have minded so much had Tufnell "ever really done anything against Australia." As well...
...Harvard trailed Yale 4-0 after one period and 5-2 after two in New Haven. But twenty minutes and five unanswered goals later, the Crimson pulled off a comeback that even its players admitted they weren’t expecting. And it was that game, that one merciless period, that “kind of broke the Yale hockey spirit for a while,” said Bulldogs coach Tim Taylor ’63. “We’ve had some long postgame wakes, so to speak.” Harvard...