Word: ruthless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columnists, lobbyists and bureaucrats were all trying to describe an unprecedented juggernaut of pressure and persuasion mounted by that ruthless old movie actor in the White House against the AWACS tide. Anchormen furrowed once, twice and even three times over the new force they found to be unleashed in the capital. But something was missing in this spectacle. Those commenting failed to note that in this kind of struggle, a President almost always has ways and means to win. Some are subtle; some...
...discouraged to learn that while we are slashing budgets in the U.S., we are giving Liberia's ruthless Samuel Doe $68.3 million [Sept. 21]. We help pay the country's oil bill, send it rice and build barracks for its army when our men in Germany have to live in quarters built 200 years ago. If we kept our money at home, perhaps then we could balance our budget...
Thatcher purges, Labor fissions, and here come the Social Democrats The London Sun called it "Maggie's Monday Massacre," and it indeed turned out to be a purification rite more sweeping in its execution than the experts had anticipated. In a ruthless purge of her Cabinet last week. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher cast aside dissenters from her strict monetarist economic policies and replaced them with unstinting loyalists to her stern anti-inflation credo. The action further split her already deeply divided Tory party and set the stage for a political season of unrivaled tumult and upheaval...
...From his ruthless elimination of potential rivals to his obvious fondness for the perks of office, all the signs indicate that having tasted power, Doe is in no hurry to relinquish it and return to the barracks. He has started to shed some of the military image; in-place of the camouflage fatigues and jaunty beret that were his trademark in the early post-revolution period, he now occasionally wears well-tailored suits. The modest Honda Civic in which he drove himself last year is seldom seen these days. Instead, he races around Monrovia in a chauffeured black Mercedes-Benz...
That such changes should be initiated by Sharon stunned many Israelis. He was, after all, a tireless, ofttimes abrasive advocate of Jewish settlement in Arab territory and a ruthless fighter against terrorism in the Gaza Strip between 1970 and 1972. Born in what was then the British mandate of Palestine, Sharon has been a hard-line Zionist all his life. At 14, he signed on with GADNA, then an underground paramilitary youth organization defending Jewish settlements. During a military career that spanned nearly three decades he earned a reputation both as a swashbuckling, Patton-like commander who sometimes overstepped...