Word: ruthlessness
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...president's armor is formidable. When the media clamps down, Reagan returns the favor by trying to seal leaks or dismissing queries with something akin to "There you go again," casting reporters as enemies of the national interest. Here the ruthless Realist in Reagan overshadows the Libertarian. When the Democrats dare to predict that Reagan's grand design will crumble under the weight of its internal contradictions, the president responds by calling these condemnations "wild charges" and warning his public not to "be fooled by those who proclaim that spending cuts will deprive the elderly, the needy and the helpless...
...Editors: People around the world are shocked by the military action to crush Solidarity [Dec. 28]. Obviously, the imposition of martial law and the ruthless action that followed were on direct orders from the Kremlin. Under such circumstances, the U.S. and the West should immediately suspend economic and food aid to Poland. Continuing it only endorses and subsidizes Communist oppression. YaWar Shahabuddin Ottawa
...also in danger because her husband discovered how the oil interests were quietly draining resources away from Wall Street. Neither performer is particularly believable. The romance that develops between them is unfeeling, a sop to the audience's conventional expectations. Kristofferson, in particular, lacks the kind of ruthless intelligence one expects of Wall Street wolves; he seems the last person anyone would ask to explain puts and calls options...
...part BBC series, Pennies was a beguilingly schizophrenic project. It mixed the rigorous naturalism of poverty and mean spirits in the Depression with opulently choreographed dream sequences that stopped just this side of camp. The characters, however rueful or ruthless, were also insatiably idealistic. They actually believed the words of the period's popular songs-so much so that they lip-synced the lyrics to the recordings, and their sad, drab lives dissolved into the art deco optimism of Hollywood musicals...
Columnists, lobbyists and bureaucrats were all trying to describe an unprecedented juggernaut of pressure and persuasion mounted by that ruthless old movie actor in the White House against the AWACS tide. Anchormen furrowed once, twice and even three times over the new force they found to be unleashed in the capital. But something was missing in this spectacle. Those commenting failed to note that in this kind of struggle, a President almost always has ways and means to win. Some are subtle; some...