Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Justice still has a tough road ahead. Antitrust law isn't particularly pro-government these days, and Microsoft hasn't even begun putting on its witnesses. But a common theme of ruthless--and perhaps illegally anticompetitive--behavior is emerging. The evidence Boies is assembling, brick by brick, suggests that the man on the videotape is at the center...
...Yugoslav President grudgingly reduces his troops in Kosovo, SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC is taking it out at home on foes and friends alike, closing a radio station and five newspapers and purging Belgrade University of professors. But in a big surprise last week, he sacked his ruthless spymaster, JOVICA STANISIC, whose loyalists fear he may be blamed by Milosevic for the "ethnic cleansing" of much of Bosnia. That explains why, after the ouster, Stanisic said Milosevic bore primary responsibility for the work of the secret police. Why did Milosevic dump a man who may finger him for war crimes? Internal reasons: Milosevic...
From her role in the end of the Cold War to her somewhat ruthless reform of the welfare state, Thatcher was a truly remarkable leader. That all of Harvard does not recognize this is indicative of the Leftist Lite mush which permeates our College. CABOT HENDERSON...
...convinced that their ideology, and the ruthless campaign in Colorado in particular, helped to create the climate in which this astonishingly sadistic assault occurred...
...world of Dena Nordstrom, a glamorous TV newswoman, people come in two varieties: corn pone and ruthless shark. The former populate the safe, static Missouri town of Dena's early youth, and the latter stalk the corridors of Manhattan, where career-obsessed Dena collapses from stress. She's forced finally to confront the hole at the middle of her existence: the unexplained disappearance of her mother when Dena was just 15. As the narrative shifts in time and place to unravel the mystery, the action is as shamelessly unsubtle as the characters are cliched. That said, this third novel from...