Word: ruthlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Patronage allegations Seems like Governor have hurt him; needs to THE Bland, but he can be remind Democrats which INSIDE ruthless. He has taken the party Pataki is in. SCOOP lead by moving to the Prayer may help--he's a center and winning crucial trained minister labor support
Saddam Hussein is a ruthless murderer in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq poses a danger to the perpetually unstable situation in the Middle East. But attacking Iraq now, while al Qaeda regroups and adapts to America’s counterterror campaign, leaves the United States open to a far greater threat...
This September—almost 30 years after my father cast his futile vote for McGovern—I cast my first vote in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. Like my father’s before him, my candidate was an academic who got waxed by a ruthless politician. But as I closed the striped curtain on the voting booth, and again as I read election results online that night, resignation—and not my father’s optimism—dulled my disappointment. Robert Reich had lost and this, I knew, was a symptom of the grinding Massachusetts...
Taliban soldiers who had thoughts of fighting on were quickly dissuaded by the ruthless force and pinpoint precision of U.S. air power. The Pentagon's most celebrated tactic was its deployment of small groups of special-ops commandos to ride horseback with Northern Alliance forces and call in air strikes using handheld lasers and target-spotting binoculars. The combination of high-tech gadgetry, battlefield savvy and an increased use of precision-guided munitions made American power irresistible. "The bombs had a big effect," says Wahid Ahmed, 18, a Pakistani who fought with the Taliban in Kunduz and now languishes...
...coordinated network. Karzai said Rahman was "definitely a member of al-Qaeda." But government authorities believe that Osama bin Laden's decimated forces in Afghanistan are not acting alone. Afghan intelligence officials say al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters have forged links with guerrillas loyal to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the ruthless former Prime Minister who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in 1996. Afghan and Western officials believe that since slipping back into the country from Iran early this year, Hekmatyar has sent aides to meet with Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives in the eastern city of Khost...