Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longtime protégé of late Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer was both a brilliant and ruthless politician. He kept his country at peace for twelve years. He launched a huge building program and virtually invented Dominican tourism, now a $90 million industry. But he permitted blatant corruption, and in recent years he allowed the economy, already suffering from a sharp drop in sugar prices, to falter. Of the country's 1.4 million workers, 20% are unemployed...
...renegade frat at an uptight small college in 1962, and all Lampoon targets get theirs--sex, immature (but funny) pranks, assholes, preppies, and callow youth. The story line, if there is one, revolves around the frantic partying and rowdiness of the frat, Delta, and the efforts of a ruthless college dean (of Faber College, whose motto is "Knowledge is Good") and a "respectable"--frat stuffed full of putz preppies to close Delta down for good. Needless to say, much mayhem ensues, and the audience is pretty much guaranteed a good time...
...main square after summary trials. Assad keeps the security forces firmly under his control (all of the senior officers must be Alawi). Inside Damascus, a special 9,000-man infantry division, commanded by Assad's brother Rifaat, protects the President and his regime. There are stories of Rifaat's ruthless excesses: people losing a choice villa or apartment because he wanted it for a friend, or brutal beatings of someone who is less than polite to Rifaat's intimates. Nonetheless, says a Western diplomat, "without Rifaat, Assad would not sleep as comfortably as he does...
...small trading boats that ply the island waters. The booty includes everything from cargoes of fish to duty-free goods being trafficked in a centuries-old barter trade between East Malaysia and the Philippine island of Mindanao. "The greed of the pirates is unbelievable," says a Malaysian official. One ruthless pirate tradition of yore prevails: walking the plank. Of 500 victims attacked by buccaneers off the southern Thai provinces of Trat and Chantaburi last year, more than 300 drowned...
...years ago. While Michael is an up-and-coming executive at the bank, Annemarie has started her own public relations agency; after only seven months, it is already in the black. Says she: "You can't be weak-spirited in America. It can be very encouraging but very ruthless." On a personal note, she adds: "I can't help being charged here. My senses are heightened and I'm continually on edge. I keep saying, 'Wow! Is this really happening?' " Jacques Murphy, 46, notwithstanding his surname, is a French-descended Quebecois whose family has lived...