Word: ruthlessness
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...soon as the show ended, guards whisked all the participants offstage and out of the building. "There was no chance for them to decompress or come back into the real world after what was an emotional experience," the guest recalls. "There was a real assembly-line quality. It was ruthless...
...Ickes' ruthless attention to detail is the main reason the Clintons have tapped the deputy chief of staff to take control of the President's re- election campaign. The team Clinton chose last week to run the Democratic Party was specially designed by Ickes to prevent any challenges to Clinton from inside the party. And Clinton has begun quietly to hire people for his re-election campaign. The President held his first meeting on the campaign last week, and top aides are busy seeking outside advice on how to remind middle-class Americans of Clinton's accomplishments. Ickes' role...
...Asia. Many of the nations in these areas are leaning towards religious fundamentalism, political instability or aggressive expansionism. U.S. military contractors are also helping to fuel an arms race between historical enemies Greece and Turkey. Although the U.S. currently supplies many nations with arms, there is no shortage of ruthless dictators or despotic regimes eager to buy weapons, either for foreign conquest or more likely, for internal conflicts and political oppression...
...founding giant -- visionary, ruthless perhaps -- establishes the fortune. His sons try to consolidate it. As the generations follow one another, the founder's energy dissipates, like gases flung out from a star. Heirs proliferate. They squabble. Trust funds thin out. Distant cousins go for one another's throats. By the fourth or fifth generation, they are turning up with guilt complexes about the family name and about the founder's long-ago crimes of piracy. Some take to drugs, others to environmentalism. Some heir will tithe his trust fund to a cult. An heiress will be arrested in Saks...
They have provided a voice for those who have been attacked mercilessly by ruthless administrations that claimed to want to do away with government intervention while they actively intervened on the side of the business classes...