Word: ruthlessness
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...Each of their shows run before a live audience. Yorkin and Lear then leads the cast through a ruthless rehash session, and another performance is taped before a second audience. The show that eventually goes on the air combines the best of the two performances. This system provides a TV equivalent of the Broadway theater's "tryout experience," says "Family" Producer John Rich "We're doing a play a week and we're trying to be entertaining every minute. We don't have a Hartford or a Boston for tryouts...
...call Warnaco boss Linda Wachner, 55, lots of things, and within New York City's viper-lipped rag trade many do--ruthless, cruel, abrasive, self-serving, vulgar. And then there are the people who don't like her. But no one ever accused her of being lazy...
...Gonzaga boy, like me and Pat Buchanan and Bill Bennett. I have been searching my memory: Was there anything in our rigorous Jesuit education that encouraged us to indulge in cheesy fabulations? I can't think of anything - rather the contrary. The Jesuits I remember had a ruthless, punitive regard for facts and truth...
...Even this prediction seems over-optimistic. Moscow depicts the Chechnya operation as painful but steady progress. In fact it is at best treading water. Military casualties are up, control is slipping. The Russians are losing allies through their own brutality and heavy-handedness and also the guerrillas' ruthless campaign of assassinating anyone who cooperates with the Moscow-backed administration. Guerrillas in Grozny have stepped up daylight attacks on Russian troops. And now they claim they will launch an offensive this summer, perhaps even before Vladimir Putin and George Bush meet later this month-seizing a large population center like Grozny...
...Greeks and Egyptians-to be seen as both Greek monarch and Egyptian pharaoh. She also needed to present herself as a formidable figure amid the violence and chaos that characterized the Mediterranean region at the time. Indeed, before Cleopatra even ascended the Ptolemaic throne, she needed to have been ruthless, given the familial bloodbaths that long characterized her incestuous line...