Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate in 1984, Gramm repeatedly attacked his opponent for receiving an unsolicited donation from a gay group. "He pounded and pounded at that, and it took us out of the race," says Clinton adviser Paul Begala, who worked in Doggett's campaign. "I would describe him as vicious and ruthless." But Gramm will need more than a simple instinct for the jugular to win in 1996. Though he has rejected any attempts to soften his image in the past, his latest round of speeches include inspirational stories about his wife Wendy, a third-generation Korean American, who served as head...
...divide Americans from one another. And it would be swell if no politician ever suggested that an opponent was serving class interests that differed from those of the voters being addressed. But that is not the world we live in. In the real world, Republicans have been skilled and ruthless practitioners of class warfare themselves. "Us vs. them" has been the Republican theme in every recent election, and it has usually worked. Indeed, the current Republican ascendancy is a triumph of two kinds of class warfare...
...soon as the show ended, guards whisked all the participants offstage and out of the building. "There was no chance for them to decompress or come back into the real world after what was an emotional experience," the guest recalls. "There was a real assembly-line quality. It was ruthless...
...Ickes' ruthless attention to detail is the main reason the Clintons have tapped the deputy chief of staff to take control of the President's re- election campaign. The team Clinton chose last week to run the Democratic Party was specially designed by Ickes to prevent any challenges to Clinton from inside the party. And Clinton has begun quietly to hire people for his re-election campaign. The President held his first meeting on the campaign last week, and top aides are busy seeking outside advice on how to remind middle-class Americans of Clinton's accomplishments. Ickes' role...
...Asia. Many of the nations in these areas are leaning towards religious fundamentalism, political instability or aggressive expansionism. U.S. military contractors are also helping to fuel an arms race between historical enemies Greece and Turkey. Although the U.S. currently supplies many nations with arms, there is no shortage of ruthless dictators or despotic regimes eager to buy weapons, either for foreign conquest or more likely, for internal conflicts and political oppression...