Word: ruthlessness
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Cano, an outspoken opponent of Colombia's drug cartel, is believed to be the victim of the country's ruthless cocaine kings, who annually murder dozens % of judges, police and journalists who attempt to expose their activities. After the shooting, an angry President Virgilio Barco signed back into law a U.S.-Colombia extradition treaty that had been invalidated by a technicality, and decreed stiffer penalties for drug violations. Barco, who attended Cano's funeral, denounced the drug lords as men "with no God" who "stop at nothing...
These days CBS's future seems to have arrived, and the huzzahs are rare in the company's corridors. Instead, there is much muttering and trembling, as the tightfisted Tisch continues to direct a rapid and ruthless austerity campaign that has so far cost 1,200 of CBS's 15,500 employees their jobs. Tisch has also lopped off entire lines of the sprawling conglomerate's business (1985 revenues: $4.8 billion), and is said to be looking for buyers who will take on others. Meanwhile, speculation is increasing that the next item to get the ax may be the "acting...
...crisis-management cowboys, of course, have attracted critics, and their methods are often questioned. One congressional staffer calls North a "ruthless operator." But if the cowboys sometimes appear to ride roughshod, NSC officials say, they are only carrying out Administration policies...
Totality and irreversibility are related. It used to be thought that totalitarianism had repealed the law of history by which power sows the seeds of its own destruction. If sheer ruthless vigilance could destroy any center of opposition, even any island of independent thought, then -- aside from external conquest, which alone destroyed Nazism -- totalitarian rule could never be reversed...
...federal investigators). Chertoff and two other young prosecutors handling their first big trial will have to prove that a national Commission made up of the bosses and some underbosses of the major families has been dividing turf and settling disputes among the crime clans ever since New York's ruthless "Lucky" Luciano organized the Commission in 1931. Luciano acted to end the gang warfare that had wiped out at least 40 mobsters in just two days in September of that year. Before that, top gangsters like Salvatore Maranzano had conspired to shoot their way into becoming the capo di tutti...