Word: vicious
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...consuming nations can do in the next several years to prevent oil producers from raising prices whenever they want to. Indeed, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries may hike world prices by as much as $2 per bbl. in September-a move that would give the American economy a vicious double jolt if Congress and the President let all U.S. price controls die a month earlier...
Canada this year faces bleak economic prospects: inflation is running at an 11.1% annual rate, production growth seems likely to be zero, and unemployment is expected to rise from the current 7.2% to 10%. One major reason for all this is a peculiarly vicious circle: to keep up with inflation, workers have been demanding huge wage settlements that fuel further inflation. Strikes have also disrupted production enough to increase unemployment more than the recession alone would have done...
...attempt to induce a plot line into a novel which has no story. West's book is less a novel than a series of sketches of the seamier side of life in Hollywood which he combines into a collage of circus-like characters, aggressively pursuing empty dreams, turning vicious at the earliest opportunity to express their frustration and disillusionment...
...Clarke could not avoid the pratfall of his controversial modern poetry. His allusions became increasingly personal and localized, to the point where personal questions of doctrine are superseded by vicious attacks on papal pronouncements he read about in the Irish Times (these annotated articles read like parodies of T.S. Eliot), and the policies of the Irish Church-State...
Certainly Breslin is not an objective reporter, and he doesn't pretend to be. He is as vicious to the Bad Guys as he is sympathetic to the Good. He describes Mardian as the type of man who "in the prize-fighting business, they used to call a mutt." And as he is about to begin the story, Breslin gets a little maudlin...