Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scientology is quite likely the most ruthless, the most classically terroristic, the most litigious and the most lucrative cult the country has ever seen," Kisser said in the Time article. "No cult extracts more money from its members...
With the offense clicking, the other story of the game was the defense, led by Lyng. The short and long-sticks played a ruthless in-your-face pressure defense, packing in the middle like a can of sardines...
Insurers generally claim that medical-loss ratios have little meaning in themselves because of different accounting systems and are not an accurate guide to profits, which have actually been driven down lately by ruthless competition. Humana, one of the biggest for-profit HMOs, reported a drop in net income of nearly 94% for 1996 after some special charges...
...protect those people. He reminds readers that the economic dislocation of the '20s and '30s opened the way for the rise of fascism. One need only observe the growing strength of the far right in Europe or the strange appeal of ultranationalists in the U.S. to see how the ruthless efficiency of capitalism can create social unrest in tandem with wealth...
...half-century of nightmarish domestic turbulence, civil war and foreign invasion. It fell to Deng Xiaoping, again like certain historical precursors, to take this mixed legacy and secure the positive aspects of the reunification in both its territorial and its economic dimensions. Deng, like these predecessors, could be completely ruthless in pursuit of these goals. He could also be vindictive and two-faced. But like them, he made China more prosperous, made restitution to a significant number of the victims from the founding phase, showed a certain flexibility in moving to recruit new bureaucratic talent from those...