Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall of La Generale's share price in the stock-market plunge made it a perfect target. Yet De Benedetti, an engineer by training who turned a moribund Olivetti into a global power in office computers, is unlikely to take apart La Generale as a ruthless raider might do. Instead, he aims to expand the company into a Continental conglomerate in preparation for the era beyond 1992, when the trade barriers between the twelve European Community countries are scheduled to be eliminated. That step will create a wide-open marketplace of some 320 million consumers, a powerful launching...
...restructuring) may turn out to be less "irreversible" than Gorbachev proclaims them to be. Even so, his reforms can no longer be dismissed as a mere matter of style, of a telegenic new face in the Kremlin. Gorbachev is that, to be sure. Also a dedicated Communist. Also a ruthless political opportunist. In 1987 he became something more, a symbol of hope for a new kind of Soviet Union: more open, more concerned with the welfare of its citizens and less with the spread of its ideology and system abroad. For fanning that hope, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is TIME...
...anyone who works at a low-pressure, no-risk service job faces a daily battle with a quieter, more maddening foe: ruthless, relentless tedium. For some, "busy work" is a way of life. Get up. Go to work. Perform the same task over and over till lunch. Hope for some excitement. Perform the same task over and over till quitting time. Try not to go crazy...
...next year, with different roommates, the phenomenon continued. Could my family be so ruthless as to continue the joke, admittedly funny for the first 10 years, throughout my entire college career? I decided it was time to confront them. I gathered my entire family and my roommates together for a meeting...
...platoon -- and "invaded" that unhappy land in 1855, he briefly became its President before being deposed and executed. It was the sudden death of his fiancee (Marlee Matlin) that turned Walker into a Manifest Destiny zealot (hey, whatever works for you!). Contrasting formality of speech and manner with ruthless righteousness, Ed Harris makes him a furiously compelling creature...