Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rock 'n' roll is] the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear...
...Roosevelt's lasting accomplishment that he found a middle ground between the unbridled laissez-faire of the '20s and the brutal dictatorships of the '30s. His conviction that a democratic government had a responsibility to help Americans in distress--not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty--provided a moral compass to guide both his words and his actions. Believing there had never been a time other than the Civil War when democratic institutions had been in such jeopardy, Roosevelt fashioned a New Deal, which fundamentally altered the relationship of the government to its people...
...Emperor and the Assassin, set in the 3rd century B.C., relates the struggle of Ying Zheng (Li) to unify China and become its first emperor. His aims are honorable, his methods increasingly brutal; he might be the prototype for Lenin or Mao. Ying sends his lover Lady Zhao (Gong) to her Han homeland. Her mission is to find a professional killer (Zhang, in a potent turn) to fake an assassination attempt, whose "failure" will make Ying seem invincible to his adversaries. But Ying grows more ruthless, and the lady and the killer fall in love. Now they will...
Bleary-eyed first-year doctors have long wandered the hallways of America's teaching hospitals, spurred on by superiors determined to subject their prot?g?s to the same 36-hour shifts they endured in years past. In one city, at least, this brutal, long-standing tradition could be on its last legs. On Tuesday, residents and interns at the Boston Medical Center voted 177 to 1 to be represented by a federally protected union. And while these interns and residents were already considered union members by the hospital, they were not protected by federal labor law - largely because the National Labor...
...state-owned network that is largely controlled by Yeltsin supporter Boris Berezovsky, news anchor Sergei Dorenko bludgeons home the idea that Luzhkov is a murderer, a crook, a hypocrite. Yevgeny Kiselev, the main talking head on the private, pro-opposition TV network NTV, tries to defend Fatherland. The pungent, brutal Dorenko seems to be winning, largely because Kiselev often trips over his own convoluted sentences...