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Complained Uchtenhagen: "I am supposed to be at the same time ambitious, cold, hard, ruthless and a crybaby. It does not make sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Ladies Last | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...character has been hurt by men; she's power-crazed, ruthless, and sublimates her need for men," comments Uzal S.H. Taylor '86, who plays Queen Foraday, "It's hard to be convincing playing this woman...

Author: By Mary K. Warren, | Title: The Feminine Mystique | 2/4/1984 | See Source »

...U.S.S.R., and particularly toward the Soviet people. There is wariness and anxiety in the land, considerably more so than a year ago, but very little of the antagonism that marked the height of the cold war in the early 1950s. The Soviets were widely regarded then as a belligerent, ruthless and implacable enemy; Americans today seem more inclined to emphasize the similarities between the two nations and to blame their conflicts largely on misunderstandings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The View from the Street Corner | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

Though aspirations and methods have been adjusted to the realities of the 1980s, the passion for hegemony lives on in Damascus. Under the shrewd, ruthless, brutally dictatorial guidance of President Hafez Assad, 53, Syria has been making a bid for the past decade to grasp the torch of Arab unity and emerge as the pre-eminent power in the Middle East. By keeping its 62,000 troops in Lebanon and by supporting factions opposed to the government of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, Syria has become the key player in that fractured country's future. By fueling the raging rebellion within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bidding for a Bigger Role: Syria seeks to become the prime Arab power | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...larger sections of bookstores. One hot seller is the A-Hunk-a-Day Desk Calendar, which bears the subtitle Aren't You Glad It's Leap Year? The Buzzword-a-Day calendar, written by the authors of The Official MBA Handbook, gets the year off to a ruthless start by defining deadwood as "Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are." The Computer Desk Diary marks high-tech anniversaries like the date of Apple Computer's founding (Jan. 3). Jane Fonda's Year of Fitness and Health datebook provides recipes and exercise tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making a Date with Status | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

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