Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Johnson supplements this observation with brief, vivid histories that illustrate the natural advantage of the ruthless and unrestrained. All the evidence suggests that the century's major revolutionary tyrants have killed considerably more of their native populations than the governments they replaced. Lenin and Stalin perverted socialist ideals and millions of Russians died. In Central and Eastern Europe, nationalists succeeded in gaining self-determination only to repress ethnic minorities within their own borders...
...doubles, Fountaine and Grossman were both ruthless at the net, and Columbia's Saputo and second seed Gary Jacobs had trouble getting any shots past them. When they did, Fountaine's powerful backcourt drives kept them moving. Harvard took the match...
...seem to interest Belaúnde. The President wrote off the Easter massacre as "an insanity perpetrated by people who are psychologically unhinged." Although he has deployed his troops, Belaunde will need a more detailed and determined policy if he is to save Andean villagers from their ruthless oppressors...
...everyone. An exceptionally violent streak seems to run through the trade. Says the DEA's Bacon about the Colombian gangs: "They're absolutely ruthless, and they've imported their way of doing business to this country." A fellow DEA official, formerly stationed in New York and now in Dade County, is still astounded by the savagery. "Heroin dealers in Harlem didn't wipe out each other's whole families. They did in one guy on a bar stool," he says. "The Colombians wipe out the whole bar." Says U.S. Attorney Walsh: "Behind that social line of cocaine laid...
...wonder if anyone is ever young or ruthless enough, to live there entirely. Dolphins won't take us. We must wait...