Word: viciously
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...office's front window taunted him every time he walked by. On his way out Monday, it was at 12,171, its lowest point since the mid-1980s. By 9:30 a.m. Tuesday: 11,710. On Thursday on his way to lunch: 11,800. "We're in a vicious spiral now," Suzuki says...
...result, predictably, is the warped culture that holds sway in the halls of most American high schools. Adolescents are conformist, so the culture demands conformity. Adolescents are vicious, so the culture is cruel beyond belief. Adolescents are insecure and anti-intellectual, so the culture despises academic achievement. And, of course, adolescents (or their parents, more likely) adore athletics, and so the culture treats athletic stars and their paramours as its kings and queens...
...trend that worries mainstream classical performers. The star cellist Julian Lloyd Webber talks of a "vicious circle." Says he: "The way the record companies are working now is dangerous. When you go over and over the same Verdi and Puccini tunes, you shrink the repertoire and the industry constricts." In other words, by ignoring new classical music, by burying their budgets in the past, the record companies might be endangering their future...
...When the yaba runs out after half the slum's population has been up for two days bingeing, most of the inhabitants feel a bit like Jacky, cooped up in her squalid little hut, her mouth turned up into a vicious little scowl and her eyes squinted and empty and mean. She looks like she wants something. And if she thinks you have what she wants, then look out. She slices at her cuticles with the straight razor. And curses Bing...
...support, others illegally and on the sly. A brutal murder last week of a Christian teacher drew attention to the numbers of such workers throughout the country (see accompanying story). What has drawn less attention is the relative freedom with which they operate, even in the face of a vicious crackdown on "evil cults" like Falun Gong that has led to more than 100 deaths in police custody. Christianity is thriving in China?though its spread not unfettered?and missionaries reflect the growing freedom to worship Jesus. "The amount of personal freedom that people have to practice religion is magnitudes...