Word: ruthless
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...Frist has confounded critics and admirers alike--proving himself both more nimble and less adroit than many expected. Despite his discipline--he sleeps only four hours a night--critics accuse him of making amateurish mistakes in managing the Senate calendar. And despite his gentle bedside manner, he is a ruthless, crafty warrior for George W. Bush, not afraid of doing what it takes to outmaneuver the Democrats...
...Frist has confounded critics and admirers alike-proving himself both more nimble and less adroit than many expected. Despite his discipline-he sleeps only four hours a night-critics accuse him of making amateurish mistakes in managing the Senate calendar. And despite his gentle bedside manner, he is a ruthless, crafty warrior for George W. Bush, not afraid of doing what it takes to outmaneuver the Democrats...
...children of democracy as Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf, the army chief who anointed himself President after taking power in a coup. Musharraf talks the language of Western modernity and eloquently denounces extremism, but democracy in Pakistan is rationed by his hand. President Bush may rail against Syria's ruthless dictatorship, but his own security agencies happily cooperate with Syria's unlovely secret police in fighting al-Qaeda - Canada is up in arms, right now, over the case of a Syrian-born Canadian arrested in transit in New York on suspicion of al-Qaeda links and "deported" to Syria, where...
...Johnson, who once said, “I do understand power, whatever else may be said of me.” Caro describes many methods Johnson discovered to gain power, from House Speaker Sam Rayburn’s paternal affection for Ladybird, Johnson’s wife, to his ruthless annihilation of Federal Power Commission Chairman Leland Olds’s career...
When asked during the question and answer session if “the means justify the ends”—if Johnson’s beneficent legislation justified the ruthless tactics he employed to attain power—Caro did not give a definitive response...