Word: ruthlessness
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...inner feelings. Those who know him well say Ueberroth is a fascinating paradox, an idealist with a salting of cleverness, a man of high principle who is willing to go right to the edge of scruple to reach his goals. He once described himself as both shy and ruthless. Over the years he has perfected a calculating public modesty, down-playing himself about, say, his mediocre college grades. But behind the self-deprecation is a huge ego and a steely inner toughness. Everything Ueberroth does has a purpose. He is a creative energizer of people, a man unafraid to make...
Indira Gandhi was a complex personality who, depending on the situation, could be kind, endearing, humble, firm, stern, maybe even ruthless. She never lost sight of her goal: the best for India...
...Medicine in New York City and a pre-eminent hepatologist, was a student of Eppinger's in Vienna in the 1930s. Popper's feelings toward his former mentor are ambiguous. On one hand, he says, Eppinger was a "cold, unapproachable man" who, throughout his career, was "ruthless as far as human life was concerned." On the other hand, Popper, who is Jewish, feels he owes his life to Eppinger, who warned him to flee just hours before the Gestapo came to arrest him. Popper says that in 1970 he informed his colleagues on the prize-selection committee that...
...elders. Associated with a group of young toughs and regarded in some quarters as a lawless power broker, Sanjay hung around his doting mother like a dark and menacing shadow. As Indian Essayist Ved Mehta wrote in A Family Affair, "Rightly or wrongly, Sanjay was seen as representing the ruthless side of his mother...
...contradictory personality of the woman who ruled India for most of two decades, but the roots must lie somewhere in those years of loneliness. Daughter of a champion of democracy, she made herself at one point a virtual dictator. She could be warm and charming but also arrogant and ruthless. She always had a look of sadness. "I like being Prime Minister, yes, but... I am not ambitious," she once said. And on another occasion: "I could have become an interior decorator. I could even have become a dancer...