Word: ruthlessness
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Ginny accepts her father's authority with an almost frightening passivity, but his is hardly the only strong will in town. Her sister Rose (Michelle Pfeiffer) is always frank and sometimes ruthless in her pursuit of what she wants. Their youngest sister Caroline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) left the farm early to pursue a career in law, but she makes her opinions known even at long distance...
...photographers blame their European counterparts for upping the ante. "They are ruthless," says Scott Downie, the owner of Celebrity Photo, an agency that covers official show-biz events. "Those who came here in the '80s laughed at us as babies: 'You don't know how to get a good photo. We're here to get them in a private moment, not in diamonds at an event.'" Yet every paparazzo is familiar with the pressures. "It's a collective hysteria," says Mark Saunders, who has covered Diana for the past five years. "It's the adrenaline flowing and that desperate need...
Gates is reputed to be intelligent and ruthless. Jobs is said to be intelligent, ruthless and streetwise, able to live off the land. No contest. The headline should be APPLE BITES MAN. BEVERLY KAI Waikiki, Hawaii...
...coup a year later. He taught economics while building a guerrilla force among the exiles that eventually joined the Tanzanian army to oust the homicidal Amin in 1979. When Museveni ran for President in 1980, he was humiliated in an election he claims was fraudulent, which put the ruthless Obote back in charge. Museveni took to the bush...
They'd been dueling for more than a decade, the binary wonders of the computer age: Steve Jobs, the flower-child dreamer whose Apple Computer brought the world the Mac's cheerful desktop icons, and Bill Gates, the brilliant and ruthless competitor whose Microsoft tamed the world with Windows after sneaking in behind those scary columns of DOS code. Their battle for control of the home computer suggested '60s barricades re-erected for the corporate '80s: Yin vs. Yang. Luke vs. Vader. Kennedy vs. Nixon. Jeans vs. Pinstripes. Art vs. Commerce...