Word: ruthlessness
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Vigilant, ruthless, shrewd, brilliant, pragmatic, Lee imposed his personal vision until he stepped down as Prime Minister in 1990 to become Senior Minister. He still approves important decisions. He believes that Western- style liberal democracy, with its emphasis on individual rights, won't work for most developing countries. "When you are hungry, when you lack basic services," he told an audience in the Philippines, "freedom, human rights and democracy do not add up to much." Instead, poor countries should promote savings, discipline, hard work and education, open the economy to foreign competition, spur investment...
...bushy mustache, looks as much like Frankenstein's monster as Joseph Stalin in HBO's new film about the Soviet dictator. Certainly his deeds are just as monstrous, and even more unfathomable. Directed by Ivan Passer, STALIN vividly chronicles the revolutionary footsoldier's rise to power and his ruthless, increasingly paranoid reign of terror. The scenes of Stalin's 1930s' purges are especially chilling, and the film gratifyingly avoids hokey re-creations of "big" historical events like the Yalta Conference. Still, despite Duvall's intense performance, the century's least charismatic evildoer remains a stubbornly opaque figure...
...other main characters of the play exhibit Shaw's roots in Dickens. There is Mr. Cokane (Ron Ritchell) who fulfills the potential of his name by providing everyone with the opiate of justification: He is capable of rationalizing everything, including Sartorius's ruthless treatment of the poor. He is a master of the euphemism, who describes himself as "moral, but not a moralist...
Cynical lines like the one from the one-dimensionally ruthless station manager (played by Chevy Chase in an uncredited appearance), discounting his reporter's sudden urge to report happy news abound: "She's pretending to be a person, but she's really a reporter," Chase explains...
Take Harvard Square, which is a hub for increasingly ruthless retail competition. This is a Square that has attracted--in the middle of a recession, no less--stores like HMV, Tower Records, Structure, The Body Shop, Origins and Learningsmith. With the notable exception of the Coop, most of these stores are not consumer cooperatives but for-profit companies, in which business decisions are made and profits kept by investors, not consumers...