Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal that might reward him with territory, % oil and money from relieved Arab states. While many experts believe retreat would lead to his downfall, there is no clear evidence for that. Saddam has already handed back to Iran territory he seized in eight years of war. He is a ruthless dictator who does as he pleases...
...Republican challenger James Rappaport would not just be a loss for the highly respected U.S. Senator John Kerry. It would send a message across the country that all a candidate needs to win federal election is an extra few million dollars and the telephone number of a sufficiently ruthless political consultant...
According to finance committee vice chair DavidA. Aronberg '93, other council members oftenperceive finance delegates as "man-eating,power-hungry gov-jocks who are pretty conservativeand pretty ruthless...
...sure, Saddam's methods are far more ruthless than Sharon's, but Israel's human and political dilemma is more acute than Iraq's. Because Israel is, in origin and essence, a Jewish state, most Arab residents are never going to feel that it is truly their country. That problem is vexing enough within Israel's pre-1967 borders, where the population is 82% Jewish. But on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 1.7 million Palestinians constitute an overwhelming majority that will feel forever oppressed, forever cheated, never reconciled, never redeemed...
...Simon & Schuster; 608 pages; $21.95), offers the reader a rare opportunity to watch adverbs mate. "Slowly, languorously" the naughty parts of speech tumble about during the sex scenes. But why aren't the scenes sexier? Never mind. The point of the story is to watch "darkly, exotically" beautiful but ruthless, yet sensitive and vulnerable female tycoon Lucky Santangelo -- she heads a billion-dollar shipping company but doesn't seem to go to the office much -- knife her way to ownership of Panther films, a big Hollywood studio. This she does without telling her actor husband ("Lennie was tall and lanky...