Word: ruthlessness
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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...
...Eyes on the Prize, a history of the civil rights movement, recounts the now familiar saga of Marshall's step-by-step assault on Jim Crow as chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But Williams also provides fresh insights into Marshall's ruthless role in the organization's tortured internal politics. Marshall had a hand in ousting not only W.E.B. DuBois, one of the N.A.A.C.P.'s founders, for his ties to communists, but also executive secretary Walter White, for committing the cardinal sin of marrying a white woman...
Behind the machinations that brought back Chernomyrdin stood one nimble figure in particular--Boris Berezovsky, financial baron turned political wheeler-dealer, the most ruthless of the so-called New Russians in the art of turning money into power. Unlike the men officially running the government, he always knows what he wants and has the brashness, tenacity and clout to get it. For him. Yeltsin's weakness offered a chance to strengthen the puppet strings...