Word: ruthlessness
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...America's mood in the first long ache of the Great Depression: frantic, feisty, obsessed with getting a job, a buck and ahead by any means necessary. Today's typical film is a fairy tale; the '30s pictures played like tabloid journalism--the March of Crime. Gangsters, gold diggers, ruthless businessmen, wage slaves and the not-working class all jumped out of the headlines and onto the screen...
...annexed into land-locked Chechnya. The province is of vital strategic importance to Russia, representing 70% of the nation's frontage on the oil-producing Caspian Sea. It's a nightmare war: Russian troops and Dagestani cops have also had to tackle local Islamic militants intent on independence, and ruthless criminal gangs armed with world-class weapons. But Moscow insists on enforcing one law in particular: no secession from Mother Russia, even if the union has to be retained with Russian blood...
Some say that Neelan was a great leader, a great pacifist, a brilliant mind, and that his death shows that the LTTE is ruthless, responsible for the loss of countless lives and cannot compromise--that they will kill anyone, Sinhalese, civilian or Tamil, who stands in their...
...Kennedy is to lead two lives--the official one the family seeks with bright idealism and ruthless ambition, and the private one it tries to preserve behind the hedges of a seaside estate. But to be a Kennedy is also to understand how those two worlds can reinforce each other. Camelot stands not just for the elegant touches of the Kennedy presidency--an exhortation at the Berlin Wall, a journey into the hollows of Appalachia--but also for the carefully selected moments of the family at play. John F. Kennedy Jr. was urban royalty with a public conscience, a black...
Robert Francis Kennedy [*] 1925-1968 Idealistic, ruthless, doomed. His own family with Ethel has recapitulated the family pattern of service and loss...