Word: harshness
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...Critics protest that forced ranking can be harsh and arbitrary. But that hasn't kept a growing number of companies from joining such firms as Enron, Ford Motor and Microsoft in adopting them. "What it all boils down to is who is in the room fighting for you," says an Enron worker who was cut from the herd. "I didn't have people there to talk for me, and I felt like I got screwed." Counters Craig Taylor, a manager in Enron's commodity-trading department: "You have to know where you stand, and I believe the system does...
...midst of the Civil War, the South announced that any black man captured in a Federal uniform, fighting for the Union, would be put to death. Abraham Lincoln's response was harsh: For every Federal soldier executed, he said, a Confederate soldier would be put to death...
...feeble family values and general Democratic decadence. Newt Gingrich blamed the squishy morals of the left when Susan Smith drowned her two young sons in a South Carolina lake. The press gave Chelsea Clinton a lot of room when she arrived at the tender age of 13. Even harsh Clinton critics concede she was one good kid (adding in the next breath, of course, that she was compensating for her dysfunctional parents). Unfortunately for the twins, they are older; one is blonder; both make good copy; and they are highly recognizable. Jenna could hardly have asked for salt...
...Many other students also say they felt Pryor was unduly harsh on SAC in his attempt to revitalize...
...harsh sanctions imposed by Israel on the West Bank and Gaza over the weekend making it harder for Arafat to sell a cease fire to his own people...