Word: ruthlessness
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PHIL GRAMM. The Texas Senator is a powerful fund raiser and works tirelessly on behalf of G.O.P. candidates. Respected for his toughness and his ruthless resistance to federal spending, he remains abrasive and little liked. As a Reagan White House veteran put it, "Gramm hasn't had a personality transplant...
...right of course, as hard-eyed and tough about himself as he had been about other people all his life. It was the same sort of ruthless judgment he had applied to opponents as well as friends, to opportunities and risks, to domestic politics and international diplomacy...
...challenge Sebastian Conley to explain why he chose Gorazde as a vehicle for humor about cannibalism. In light of the relentless and ruthless bombardment of Gorazde by Bosnian Serb militia, I was stunned after reading his "Seth Lives" strip which appeared on April...
...takes three to six months, says one quant who has made the transition, to change a shy, bookish type into a ruthless money-making machine. What's required, says this alumnus of the system, is "to lose your sense of decency. You have to be rude, brash, you have to be selfish. Also you have to start ignoring 90% of what you are told." He describes, perhaps admiringly, a vulnerable Ph.D. from Princeton University. This fellow wore $50 suits and thick glasses. He was painfully polite. Transformed, he became the quant from Hell. "He's got this personality suddenly...
This sort of ruthless competition between universities is nothing new; certainly Harvard is very adept at grabbing prestigious professors from other institutions...