Word: thanklessness
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...last thing the 1,500 United Nations troops on duty in Bosnia-Herzegovina needed was another lesson in what a thankless task they face. They got one anyway, when two French soldiers were killed and five more injured as their convoy, carrying supplies from Belgrade, was raked by machine-gun fire near Sarajevo's airport. The U.N. commander in Sarajevo, Egyptian Brigadier General Hussein Ali Abdul-Razek, blamed the attack on "irresponsible elements" among the Bosnian government troops loyal to President Alija Izetbegovic. Abdul- Razek's deputy, French Lieut. General Philippe Morillon, called it "a clear provocation by people...
...that context, Ramos may prove to be the right man, in the right place, for a tough and thankless...
...independent campaign for the White House. In what may be the cleverest antipolitics fandango in an antipolitics year, Perot insists, "I have no desire to be President. My personal feelings are, anybody intelligent enough to be able to do the job would not want the toughest, dirtiest, most thankless job in the world...
...entrance of Indra, the God of Heaven (Jonathan Weinberg). "How did you get here?", he asks, to which his innocent daughter replies, "I was carried on a cloud, but it seems to be falling." The "here" that Indra refers to is Earth, the "dark and heaviest world" whose "discontented, thankless" inhabitants speak a language Indra calls "complaint." Indra's daughter does not agree with her father's condemnation of the human race. "Don't say that!" she says, "voices also rise in prayer. Your judgment is too hard, Father." The benevolent daughter of the Gods descends to Earth to explore...
Though Rutskoi has carefully avoided criticizing Yeltsin personally, the President has moved to limit his erstwhile ally's authority and recently assigned him the thankless agricultural portfolio. But Yeltsin has stopped short of trying to oust Rutskoi, possibly because he considers it wiser to tolerate a rebellious Vice President than to have him lead an opposition campaign. "Rutskoi can only form a viable party if he resigns," says Tretyakov. As if preparing for such a move, Rutskoi has lately been sounding nationalist themes along with his economic critiques...