Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although only 62 people participated in the Dudley House vote that elected him a large segment of the campus is familiar with Evans his positions are unmistakable and his campaign integrator is everywhere. "Grandiose are the conceptions Ruthless is their execution!" one poster boldly declares. "Vote Evans, As inevitable as the forces of history urges another. "One world, one constitution, one leader" reads a third...
...Last June, the Swedish navy spent 14 days in futile pursuit of a reported sub in the Gulf of Bothnia. But the latest trespass raised the greatest fears. "This is so far inside a restricted area, so close to our main naval base, that it seems more aggressive and ruthless than anything before," declared Commander Hans von Hofsten, who is in charge of briefing the more than 300 reporters who have flocked to Hars...
...then rations it. He intercepts calls and news from home "for their own good." He quarantines them from entertainment, and even from attending church. It takes no Soviet censor to find a political metaphor here: Nowak is the Polish statesman-Gierek or Kania or Jaruzelski-who must act the ruthless boss to satisfy his own ruthless boss. It is difficult, it is wrong, but it must be done to survive. Thus does the liberal turn totalitarian...
...always carries a pistol, a knife and a hand grenade on his belt, Hobeika was the most feared Phalangist in Lebanon. He had taken part in the Tel Zaatar massacre and in attacks on the rivals of Bashir Gemayel. The Israelis knew Hobeika and his followers as ruthless, brutal security men, and knew they did not constitute a disciplined military force...
...boardrooms of East Coast conglomerates. There, his minimoguls weep, curse and whisper. The reason? Actor Cliff Robertson had informed authorities that a $10,000 check was forged by Begelman. Why, insiders wondered, had the six-figure-salaried studio chief, a former talent agent and model for the ruthless Lyon Burke in Valley of the Dolls, not merely borrowed the money...