Word: ruthlessness
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Insurers generally claim that medical-loss ratios have little meaning in themselves because of different accounting systems and are not an accurate guide to profits, which have actually been driven down lately by ruthless competition. Humana, one of the biggest for-profit HMOs, reported a drop in net income of nearly 94% for 1996 after some special charges...
...protect those people. He reminds readers that the economic dislocation of the '20s and '30s opened the way for the rise of fascism. One need only observe the growing strength of the far right in Europe or the strange appeal of ultranationalists in the U.S. to see how the ruthless efficiency of capitalism can create social unrest in tandem with wealth...
...half-century of nightmarish domestic turbulence, civil war and foreign invasion. It fell to Deng Xiaoping, again like certain historical precursors, to take this mixed legacy and secure the positive aspects of the reunification in both its territorial and its economic dimensions. Deng, like these predecessors, could be completely ruthless in pursuit of these goals. He could also be vindictive and two-faced. But like them, he made China more prosperous, made restitution to a significant number of the victims from the founding phase, showed a certain flexibility in moving to recruit new bureaucratic talent from those...
...heaviest burden that a parent can carry is the untimely death of a child. The manner of death is of no consequence, but when one thinks that in this case it was the ruthless hand of a criminal that was responsible, one wonders why fate chose as its victim Cosby, the virtual father of many American families. LEESA DESAI New York City...
...report on Bill Gates, Walter Isaacson provided insight that has given us a new perception of the man [BUSINESS, Jan. 13]. Gates, apart from his lack of emotional empathy with mankind and his ruthless business prowess, is the intellectual thinker for modern-day society. He knew what he wanted and was determined to achieve it. Instead of being a victim of circumstance, he turned events to his purpose. That's why he is today the ceo of Microsoft Corp., the world's richest man and perhaps the modern-day Napoleon of the technological world. But I wonder, Is Bill Gates...