Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wobble mentally when thinking about this dispute. The idea of sociology without ideas, of a specialty without substance, has an amusing side to it. The presumption that exegesis is somehow soft in comparison to the rigorous and ruthless practice of the inhabitatants of William James is delightful. But it is wrong, even silly, to believe that exegesis is soft: have my letter-writing colleagues--excuse me if I chuckle--never come across the formidable Cowles Professor of Government Professor Judith Shklar...
...encouraging first step toward normalization, the army's 1,200-man Presidential Guard, notorious for its abuses of human rights, has been moved off the palace grounds and is being disbanded -- even though Haitians are worried that there may be a backlash from the Tontons Macoutes, the ruthless thugs who linger from the Duvalier days. Still, for the first time since Duvalier's departure, | the prospects for democracy seem real...
Unity was enforced and nationalist ambitions suppressed over the decades with ruthless coercion by the KGB, supplemented by privileges for the local party leaders who carried out Moscow's directives. Under Gorbachev, the use of force inside the Soviet Union was discouraged, and the party's hidebound patronage system came under direct attack. By denouncing the government's "command-administrati ve" methods, Gorbachev hoped to invigorate the system and increase its efficiency...
Another example of Judaism's ruthless treatment of its enemies is the case of the people of Amalek. The Bible records that the nation of Amalek massacred the sick and old among the Israelites when they left Egypt during the Exodus. To punish Amalek, the Israelites were ordered in the book of Exodus to wipe them out. The biblical decree applies even to livestock and to all descendants of Amalek, not just to the actual perpetrators living at the time. Indeed, the commandment to eliminate Amalek from the face of the earth is included among the 613 that Jews...
...President would never have to resort to lame arguments about the standard of living of Americans. He would never have to warn about a possible threat to world security, he would never be mocked for calling Saddam Hussein ruthless. No one would repeat the errors of World War II by arguing that this is a "European problem...