Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no question that Mr. Coors is a particularly distasteful character and his company is a particularly outrageous one. The Coors company, maker of a popular beer, long has been the subject of a nationwide boycott for what participants call its ruthless and repeated crushing of unions formed by employees...
...telecast, Amerika has incited what may be the biggest avalanche of protest against any program in TV history. Moscow has denounced it as dangerous propaganda, liberal groups have complained that it will fuel anti-Soviet sentiment, and the United Nations is upset that the movie portrays its troops as ruthless marauders. Critics have raced into print with condemnations of the still unfinished movie, many of them based only on bootleg scripts or a 90-minute presentation tape. Last week the protesters scored a major victory: Chrysler Corp., the show's largest advertiser, announced that it was withdrawing all its commercial...
Remarkably few neighbors share the sheriff's straightforward sentiment. Dallas, say his cheerleaders, is not a ruthless killer; rather, he's the last American hero, a vestige of the Old West, a virtual Jeremiah Johnson. In a land of thundering silence and splendid isolation, where a trapper can hike for days without stumbling across another's tracks, this version of the story has grown into a powerful myth. Sure, his fans admit, Dallas killed two men on that terrible day in 1981, but they were just game wardens, the lowly emissaries of flower-fondling environmentalists. Today, in what remains...
...Mikhail Gorbachev. Government officials orchestrated the show by reversing a long-standing policy virtually barring the return of emigrants and then scheduling a large group to return on one day. The Soviet press gave heavy play to the arrivals, including some Jews, pronouncing that the sorry souls had found "ruthless competition, the spirit of money-making, crime and drug addiction" in America...
...There in the Southeast Asian archipelago of 56 million people and more than 7,000 islands, life not only imitated art but improved upon it. In a made-for-television drama watched by millions, two veteran rulers, President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda, stumbled and fell in their ruthless campaign to extend, with an immodesty broader than a scriptwriter's fancy, their stolen empire...