Word: ruthlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...replacement is Albert Casey, 68, who steered once troubled American Airlines back on course as chairman from 1974 to 1985. American had been laden with many layers of unnecessary staff and subsidiaries. Says Casey: "I fired them all and cleaned them out." He may have to be as ruthless at First RepublicBank...
...disenchantment fell over the kingdom, for the magic no longer worked. Tinker Bell's pixie dust had lost its twinkle. A teenage boy was even heard to say, "I wouldn't be caught dead going to one of their movies." The whole kingdom fell into such deep gloom that ruthless Corporate Raiders attacked the magic realm, aiming to sell off its treasures and keep Cinderella's Castle as their trophy. But a man named Roy, noble nephew of the late Uncle Walt, sought help from the one person in whom everyone could believe: Prince Michael the Creative. When Michael arrived...
Among the people Gabriel knows is Manuel Salcido Uzeta, better known as "Cochi Loco" (Crazy Pig), a ruthless trafficker who owns hotels and restaurants in the resort city of Mazatlan. Once, says Gabriel, three guests at a local wedding reception annoyed Salcido. The drug lord ordered his gunmen to shoot them down. While Mexican law-enforcement officials say they cannot find him now, Mazatlan residents say they see him often, calmly eating breakfast or moving about with carloads of police bodyguards...
...control, has major strategic value; Panama is also one of the U.S.'s prime listening posts in the region and home to the 10,000-man U.S. Southern Command. To some, the U.S.'s difficulties in Panama are reminiscent of Iran. Having struck another Faustian bargain with a ruthless and corrupt dictator, the U.S. again finds itself turning against a longtime client with no viable democratic replacement in the wings...
...fall of La Generale's share price in the stock-market plunge made it a perfect target. Yet De Benedetti, an engineer by training who turned a moribund Olivetti into a global power in office computers, is unlikely to take apart La Generale as a ruthless raider might do. Instead, he aims to expand the company into a Continental conglomerate in preparation for the era beyond 1992, when the trade barriers between the twelve European Community countries are scheduled to be eliminated. That step will create a wide-open marketplace of some 320 million consumers, a powerful launching...