Word: ruthlessness
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...stints as lifeguards, camp counselors or Gap greeters are scrambling for career-oriented summer jobs and high-profile internships, with an eye toward boosting credentials for college admissions officers or prospective employers. These are students with enough memory of corporate downsizing to know that the job market can be ruthless, and they're dazzled enough by tales of 24-year-old Internet millionaires to realize that the fast track runs year-round. "The job market is as strong as we have seen it in decades, but there's a signal pressure--a race to be more qualified than the next...
...singing, it's good enough, though no better than that. She sounds like a reasonably talented boy soprano who accidentally swallowed half a tab of human growth hormone. Alas, even the most mature-sounding teenage voices are too physically fragile to stand up to ruthless exploitation, and Church's is already afflicted with a wobbly vibrato that has TOO MUCH, TOO SOON stamped all over it. If she continues to pump it out night after night, the only place she'll be singing Cio-Cio-San is in the shower...
Lourie's novel purports to be a memoir that Stalin left behind, stashed in a crawl space above the room where he died in 1953. In hard, flat, ruthless prose that is also sometimes horribly funny, Lourie's Stalin, supposedly writing in 1938-39, directs an operation to seek out and assassinate his nemesis, Leon Trotsky, then bunkered in Mexico City, raising rabbits and plotting a comeback...
...private label clothes you have to be an utterly ruthless producer and I wasn't good at the ruthless part," she jokes...
Congratulations to NATO for standing up to a ruthless and evil dictator. Milosevic can be compared with Cambodia's Pol Pot. The Serbs have demonstrated yet again that they are capable only of fighting unarmed civilians. Failure to destroy the Serb war machine will surely destabilize the entire region, the consequences of which may be catastrophic. MICHAEL ALLEN Sutton in Ashfield, England...