Word: ruthlessness
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Israel. Mossad, its intelligence service, is very well organized, ruthless, dedicated, all but impossible to infiltrate. Excels at information gathering and counterintelligence, is weaker on political analysis. Major target: Arab countries, naturally...
Today Dreyfuss can have almost any part he wants. He is currently playing a hookah-smoking private eye in Jeremy Kagan's The Big Fix, and next spring he will portray a ruthless director in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. With what sounds almost like resignation, he admits to being content. Friends say that Lucinda, a Puerto Rican who worked as a TV researcher, has brought a new stability to his life. After six weeks on a liquid protein diet, this former junk-food addict-"I still dream of Twinkies," he sighs-has even lost his famous...
...employee battery-making Chloride Group, he almost quintupled profits in five years to $47.5 million. He won the Guardian Young Businessman of the Year award in 1975. Though he will have to negotiate a companywide pact, Edwardes is a fervent believer in decentralized management who pledges to use "ruthless logic" in organizing executive teams to run Leyland as a group of "profit centers." He had better hurry...
...military governments that replaced countries were thrown into civil wars; some were badly mismanaged by incompetent and ruthless military governments. This is the worst period Africa has ever experienced. One wonders whether the wheels of destruction will ever come to a halt...
...used until the middle of the last century. Then it became a favorite weapon of radical nationalists; the Irish used terror against the English, and the Armenians and Macedonians against the Turks. Perhaps the most notorious and brazen of the 19th century's terrorists were Russia's Narodnaya Volya, ruthless bands of nihilists who lobbed bombs at the Czar's officials...