Word: mercilessness
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...Northeastern in the second game. Carolyn Sullivan and Michaelle Surette had hat tricks and Kerrie Cronin and Toni Picariello had two goals apiece to pace the Huskies' merciless attack...
...that is going public, an initial stock offering is like a 21st birthday, the arrival of an heir or a bar mitzvah. It is a period of intense activity and emotional strain that transforms a firm from a little-known private business into one that must operate under the merciless scrutiny of lawyers, analysts, competitors and investors. Sometimes the pressure is so great that the smooth running of the firm suffers. Says California Venture Capitalist Thomas Davis: "Baseball players have to perform when people boo and shout. Companies have got to learn to live with the conditions of life...
...more repression that in turn would alienate more Syrians from the regime, it succeeded. Since the late 1970s, the elaborate security apparatus?which includes the Mokhabbarat, the secret police organization with some 20,000 to 30,000 members, and Saraya al Difa, a praetorian guard run by Assad's merciless brother Rifaat?has grown more heavyhanded. After a bodyguard reportedly tried to kill Assad with a hand grenade in June 1980 (the President's life was saved when another guard threw himself on the explosive), some 250 to 300 political prisoners were massacred at Tadmur prison. In February 1982, when...
Both opposition blocs seemed intent on throwing all their ammunition into a frantic final effort to slow the Thatcher juggernaut. Deputy Labor Party Leader Denis Winston Healey launched a merciless, near hysterical attack on Thatcher for her leadership during the Falklands war. Speaking of "this Prime Minister who glories in slaughter," he accused Thatcher "of wrapping herself in the Union Jack and exploiting our soldiers, sailors and airmen." The outburst stunned even the opposition. Replied Conservative Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson: "This must win the prize for the most contemptible statement of the election campaign." Thatcher declared that Healey...
...narrator, Spencer Monroe Savage--who remains unnamed until the last page of the book--seems a contrived sort of literary ventriloquist's dummy for Theroux. Through Savage, the author indulges in his witty and merciless taste for characterization, which invariably portrays his subjects in their weakest and most unattractive light. This dispassionate and always slightly disgusted--sounding tone is familiar from Theroux's previous books, including his non-fiction. The narrator of The London Embassy always seems to be presenting a bland, agreeable face to the people he is speaking to, while in his thoughts--to which we are privy...