Word: mercilessness
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...while Sachs generously grants others theright to dissent, he is almost merciless in hispoint-by-point refutation of their arguments...
...hoodlums, vandals, welfare cheats and general layabouts who are burned out of their home in a fatal arson. Not even this makes them sympathetic. They remain a bitter if invigorating tonic, to be taken in carefully measured doses. But they are mean-spirited fun. Barnard, an acute and merciless chronicler of Britain's middle classes, is at his fiercest in showing how the proper bourgeoisie reacts to, and is repeatedly bested by, the convention-scorning Phelans. The story's most intense drama is generated not by the search for the killer, but by the question of whether the one decent...
...Japanese, Carla Hills had been a steely antagonist making a flurry of merciless demands. But last week their image of the U.S. Trade Representative took an abrupt turn. She became an unexpected defender, thanks to her sudden determination to bring a more conciliatory tone to U.S.-Japan relations. At Hills' urging, President Bush decided last week to remove Japan from a U.S. hit list of countries cited for unfair trade practices. Said Hills, whose new attitude inflamed many hawks in Congress: "Perhaps Japan had the farthest to go, but it moved farther and faster than any of our other trading...
...category for many students is "turnaround consulting," which develops the skills to rescue troubled companies -- including overleveraged firms that have been through the takeover wars. The new heroes are turnaround specialists like Sanford Sigoloff. Long known as Ming the Merciless for his fierce cost cutting, Sigoloff now runs the bankrupt U.S. operations of Australia-based Hooker Corp., which loaded up on debt to acquire the B. Altman and Bonwit Teller department-store chains...
These details establish the absolutely typical Pynchon plot. An evil, well- organized and immensely powerful enemy sows "the merciless spores of paranoia" among a shaggy, lost group of drifting souls who find the real world threatening under the best of circumstances. The intended victims, not all of whom think too clearly anymore, have other problems as well, including the task of making sense out of what is happening to them while knowing that sense, strictly defined, is a weapon of the other side. Caught between these opposing, mismatched factions is a child, Prairie, who would dearly love to find...