Word: ruthlessness
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Christopher Columbus, hero of 1492, came under attack as a ruthless invader. A bad year, all in all, for dead white males . . . And some live ones: Mark Spitz and Bjorn Borg hoped to relive their heydays but found it takes more than high self-esteem to be a world-class athlete . . . The 1970s were the years that taste forgot. Why celebrate platform shoes and Partridge Family LPs? Keep them in the attic where they belong...
...help the reader in the transition from sung to read, Reed often includes small biographical or explanatory footnotes for the songs. These in themselves give one the impression of a ruthless self-assessment taking place on the page, and they convey the seriousness of the task at hand...
...victim -- unlike the Kopechnes, who did not criticize the Kennedys until the 20th anniversary of the drowning -- knows its way around the legal system and has the money to pay for it. The difference is that the prosecutor, Moira Lasch, has a near 100% conviction rate and is as ruthless as any lawyer the Kennedy family ever hired. She watched seven years ago as her boss David Bludworth, the lead investigator of David Kennedy's mysterious drug overdose, was reprimanded by a judge for being "governed by what the Kennedys want...
...their exhortations to self-help and self-reliance will point to the separatists and argue that universal aid programs and communal solidarity are rendered superfluous by the efforts and gains of advocacy groups. Any sense of common responsibility will be deemed inappropriate and inefficient in this state of ruthless competition for political power. And the consequence will be disastrous to the poor and genuinely victimized of those very groups...
...forced to work harder, retyping entire papers instead of making minor changes. They may spend sleepless nights waiting to borrow a friend's computer, doomed only to receive lower grades because they are too tired to think clearly. Some are even driven to a life of crime, turning to ruthless software piracy in order to complete their assignments...