Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which is one day before the regular summer holiday begins. Then, as an appeasing gesture, Park reluctantly fired his top collaborator: Kim Chong Pil, Park's nephew by marriage and head of Park's Democratic-Republican Party. Kim is hated by the students because of the ruthless way he once ran Park's Central Intelligence Agency and because he has been instrumental in the controversial negotiations with Japan. Kim is fond of saying, "I am nothing but a shadow of the President." Would the man who casts the shadow be the mob's next victim...
...question of how internal politics would change if the man at the center of the Russian power "onion" succumbed, is the most difficult to answer. Would control over the civilian population loosen to show the good intentions of the new leaders while they engaged in the ruthless struggle for supremacy, or would discipline tighten to avoid disorders...
...Open Mind." The selection of Adams to referee this Army-Air Force dispute testifies to his record of cold objectivity and ruthless fairness. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff General William F. McKee recently leaned across a Pentagon barbershop chair to tell Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that Adams was the best man in either service he could possibly have found to run STRIKE. And Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay calls Adams "the most objective officer I have ever run across in the Army. He has an open mind...
...nation needs to preserve safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure...
With this loss of a monopoly over knowledge, Brewster said, the most important function of a university will be to provide a climate where "20 years of unbroken competition for nothing worthier than test scores" is not allowed "to dampen all aspiration, intellectual as well as active," and "where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure...