Word: ruthless
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Rose, the Crimson’s most prolific passer ever, was the steadying force of the 2001 perfect season, and began 2002 with the same ruthless efficiency. Through three games, the fifth-year senior had as many incomplete passes (three) as touchdowns...
...knows what's going on in Aceh anymore. But then nobody really wants to know. Polls show the majority of Indonesians support the conflict-which the military has successfully portrayed as a noble battle for national unity rather than, as an Acehnese friend described to me from hiding, a ruthless campaign against a single ethnic group. The reaction overseas has been similarly muted. So far, protests from abroad have been pro forma or nonexistent or, in the case of Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer, who wholeheartedly threw his support behind the Aceh campaign only days after the Peusangan massacre, bordering...
...Harvard, it’s drastically inappropriate to equate their actions with those of Blair Hornstine, who is single-handedly attempting to bankrupt her entire public school district just to assure that no one shares the title of “valedictorian” with her. This displays a ruthless disregard for her entire community and a level of selfishness far deeper than that of most any competitive Harvard student. Unlike Podolsky, I and many others do find this act “uniquely outrageous...
Under Mansfield’s system, ruthless competition takes place between the students who yearning for an A, which makes students less likely to help one another. Some students in the government tutorial simply give up, preferring to put forward their best efforts in classes where their toils will be rewarded. The most determined people never know when to stop talking, because they know class participation grades will be competitive too. Students lose faith in the system that is designed to provide helpful feedback...
...Child Support Services Department (CSSD) boasts an impressive record. According to its website, in 2002 alone CSSD “established paternity for more than 65,000 children, and distributed over $428 million dollars for families.” But taking into account the L.A. bureaucracy’s ruthless crusade to find “deadbeat dads,” as well as the widespread problem of paternity fraud, the numbers become a lot less impressive...