Word: ruthlessness
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Another confrontation between a ruthless First World corporation and exploited Third World labor? No, this is the Venezuela of President Hugo Chávez, where any semblance of business as usual is usually unintentional. The miners, who are illegal squatters, were protesting because they say Crystallex is trying to bar them from doing their free-lance work at Las Cristinas--despite the fact that Crystallex has yet to begin operating the mine and, as a result, has failed to create the 1,500 formal, well-paying mining jobs (more than $200 a month, with benefits) that had been promised. Crystallex points...
...Cambodia, African-style.' That is how some Westerners describe Uganda today ... They contend that the government of President Apollo Milton Obote ... has caused the deaths of as many as 100,000 Ugandan civilians and brought another 150,000 to the brink of starvation in a ruthless campaign to wipe out guerrillas ... Said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights Elliott Abrams during a congressional hearing ... 'Repeated reports of large-scale civilian massacres, forced starvation and impeded humanitarian relief operations indicate that Uganda has one of the most serious human rights problems in the world today' ... At one time known...
...revelation: a passage in which he botches a speech in front of his family is one of the book's most poignant. Another surprise is the helplessness he felt in his early days as a Test batsman, facing a quartet of West Indian fast bowlers every bit as ruthless as Waugh would become...
...superfluous particulars of Shalimar’s 15-year foray into the world of Islamic fundamentalism, forcibly drawing our attention away from the novel’s main plotline. It is in this section, however, that the crucial evolution of Shalimar from a childish clown to a ruthless killer occurs, costing him his humanity and our sympathy.It is the parallels between modern life and Hindu mythology that most enrich “Shalimar the Clown.” The world that these characters live in, though littered with mythical snakes, prophetesses, and omens that can only be seen by those...
...cannot save every life. But the ones we can, we must. It is--or it ought to be--unacceptable that an accident of longitude and latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. In America and in Europe we have dealt with polio, malaria and TB with the ruthless efficiency they deserve. Beyond our own borders, we have offered excuses instead of solutions. We need to stop this two-steps-forward, one-step-back tango that we have been dancing for years and start marching...