Word: ruthlessness
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...present chief of ENI, which controls more than 35% of Italy's petroleum industry, is Raffaele Girotti, 53, a Cefis protegé. Trained as an engineer, Girotti has worked for ENI since 1949. He has earned the nickname "The Hammer" because of his ruthless management skills. In an effort to reorganize one sprawling firm, he interviewed every man in its management ranks, sometimes as many as 30 a day, and then decided which ones to keep and which to discard...
...czar's palace -the Bloody Sunday that snapped the last thread of respect for the monarchy. In the last three months of the year, anger and discontent erupted in workers' strikes and military mutinies in Russia's major cities. After 50 days of what Trotsky called "ruthless object lessons," the czar and his Black Hundreds restored a kind of order to their shaky autocracy. Trotsky and other revolutionaries were tried and sentenced to Siberian exile...
...trip may see him again in Hangchow, the Chairman's usual retreat from the icy Mongolian winds that sweep down on the capital in February. But the man who will deal with the President on the issues is Chou, a brilliant, subtle, ruthless and endlessly flexible statesman who is at the apex of his extraordinary career...
...marriage it is not surprising if optimistic 20 year olds and pre-seven year itchers should find the first act over whelming. Always a popular target and one which has been riding particularly low in recent years, marriage doesn't really deserve such unrestrained vehemence. And Senelick is ruthless in his prosecution. Senelick has dealt with these love-hate relationships before. When fed up with what he considered the Loeb's non-theatrical organization, he founded "Harpo", the Harvard Producing Organization. Senelick choose for the inaugural performance "Married Alive"--a collection of three one-act farces on married life including...
...silence. We must show our outrage at this latest atrocity through participation in demonstrations, support for militant actions such as those of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the withholding of Federal taxes, and support for political candidates favoring total withdrawal. Nixon's escalation of the bombing is a ruthless political act and the response must be political, not passive silence while the killing goes...