Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paternalistic, it is also frequently ineffective. The recent controversy surrounding Harvard's South African Internship Program highlights the University's institutional and hierarchical arrogance. But the Internship Program fiasco is only one in a long line of decision-making blunders--foul-ups that have embarrassed Harvard and exposed the ruthless corporate attitude underlying Harvard's liberal veneer...
...join the party, says Ka Victus, "we must change him entirely, re-educate him and indoctrinate him." Once inside the party, he continues, "if you want to court a girl, you must submit her name, and she will be investigated." On matters of internal discipline, the guerrillas can be ruthless. If a rebel discredits the insurgency, says Victus, "the N.P.A. will kill its own member...
Authorities suspect that the Commission's contract for the hit went to John Gotti, 45, a stocky Gambino captain and protege of Castellano's ruthless second-in-command, Aniello Dellacroce, who died of natural causes earlier this month. Dellacroce apparently wanted Gotti to succeed him, but Castellano seemed to have been grooming Belotti for the No. 2 job. Though the intemperate Gotti is unlikely to rise to the top of the Mafia's largest family, the killings nevertheless may signal the ascent of a hungrier younger generation of mob leaders. The head may be dead, but the body lives...
...freelance reporter who has spent six months of the past two years in Afghanistan, stated that half a million to a million civilians have been killed by the Soviet army. In addition, four million refugees have fled the country. The Soviet Union has achieved this by means of a ruthless policy in which they level entire villages, burn crops, destroy fields and irrigation canals, kill livestock and use chemical weapons in order to starve the Afghans out of their country...
...However ruthless and mercenary all of this may sound, Davis is quick to point out that the club is not without morals. "We don't invest in companies operating in South Africa...