Word: ruthless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exit from Iraq is cowardly. It's the kind of question posed by people without conviction. Your article ought to have begun with the declaration "Rarely does a day go by in Iraq that citizens do not enjoy some new freedom that they were denied for decades under a ruthless dictatorship." RON BAILEY Wooster, Ohio...
...networks of jihadists emerge faster than the U.S. and its allies can arrest or kill them. Counterterrorism experts believe that the old al-Qaeda organization commanded by bin Laden may be expiring and that a new, more elusive generation of extremists apparently inspired by al-Qaeda's ruthless vision--men like Jamal Zougam, 30, a cell-phone salesman arrested for the Madrid bombings, and Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, 37, the Jordanian suspected of orchestrating violence in Iraq--has taken up the banner. Barely recognizable even to officials who make a living tracking terrorists, the new jihadists proved in Madrid that...
Even his most ruthless critics in the Faculty’s ranks would have a tough time coming up with questions as unrelenting as the ones University President Lawrence H. Summers faced yesterday from the students in Religion 1529, “Personal Choice and Global Transformation...
...Putin's combination of authoritarian political instincts and market-friendly economic policies make him a political creature quite familiar in countries at Russia's level on the economic ladder - the authoritarian modernizer. Combined with his clampdown on political and media freedom and his ruthless war in Chechnya, Putin has delivered a solid economic performance that has seen investors turning bullish on a Russian economy that grew by 7.3 percent last year. Buoyed by high oil and natural gas prices, Russia's economy looks positively rosy right now compared to Yeltsin's final years. And Putin's brusque, businesslike and sometimes...
...DIED. RUSLAN GELAYEV, 39, Chechen separatist, in a shoot-out with Russian border guards; near the village of Bezhta, Dagestan. Gelayev was a formidable military commander in the 1994-96 war against Russian forces. Even some foes showed grudging respect for Gelayev, who was known as a ruthless fighter but not as a terrorist. Moscow-backed Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov told the Itar-Tass news agency that fighting in Chechnya would continue despite the warlord's death...