Word: ruthlessness
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After the war television was unleashed. As a shrewd businessman who mixed as easily with scientists as with corporate leaders, Sarnoff fought for patents and the right to advance the technology of the medium. Called ruthless by his rivals, he once said, "Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in men." And when others would complain that his focus was more on technology than on programming, he said, "Basically, we're the delivery boys...
This is despite its more shocking plot. Unlike the Boatwrights of Bastard, a lively and tightly-knit group of ne'er-do-wells, the Johnsons are isolated from their extended family and ruthless towards each other, each one capable of horrible acts of cruelty. The main culprit is the father, Bill Sr., a vicious drunk who between jail stints beats his wife and children and sexually abuses his daughter Jean. Billy Jr., the dead man of the title, responds to the abuse by becoming his father's replica, repeating his father's acts first with Jean, then with...
Violence by the government escalated after Shell expressed concern over its stability. A memo from the Rivers State Internal Security Task Force, dated May 12, 1994, states: "Shell operations [are] still impossible unless ruthless military operations are undertaken." The memo also recommended the "wasting" of Ogoni leaders...
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...