Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...puts on a prime-time horror show intended-quite literally-to terrify the nation's 28 million inhabitants. Shots of racked bodies of political prisoners tortured to death, corpses of dissidents shot down by mobs of armed vigilantes-they all flicker across the screen as evidence of the ruthless determination of what may be one of the most brutal and arbitrary regimes in power today...
...reverence for these institutions of healing. Most people share a similar attitude toward hospitals, and so they are unprepared to believe that a medical complex or, for similar sentimental reasons, a university or church can, in its relentless drive to force tenants out of a building, resort to such ruthless tactics as shutting off the heat and hot water on the coldest days of winter or setting loose a German police dog to attack the tenants in the hallways of the building...
...Stevens' success in fighting unionization attempts thus far is due in large part to the company's ruthless reliance on a variety of unfair and illegal labor practices. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has found J.P. Stevens guilty in 15 instances of illegally discharging workers who were attempting to organize or of bargaining in bad faith. To date the company has been forced to pay over $1.3 million to 289 illegally-fired workers. J.P. Stevens has also been found guilty of bugging union organizers' headquarters and of federal tax evasion...
...Amin seriously hope to contain Uganda's 7 million Christians indefinitely with 800,000 Moslems? At the moment, his policy appears to be one of selective genocide, and no one is in a position to check his ruthless misuse of power...
McGlade stumbled in her first contest, 9-15, then muscled her way to convincing 15-10, 15-11 and 15-7 triumphs over Barbara Gross. Freshman Becky Tung was totally ruthless at number seven as she bounced over Sue Slough...