Word: harshness
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...equally cynical speculator in The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. The speculator, though, sees virtues in the corrupt system: "We would have to go without the services of some of our ablest men, sir, if the country were opposed to--to--bribery. It is a harsh term. I do not like to use it." John T. Noonan Jr., 58, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, feels quite differently about the term. In a monumental new book bluntly titled Bribes (Macmillan; $29.95), he applies the word to figures as distinguished as Francis Bacon...
...eerie how Madson several years ago seemed to prophesy events when he wrote about earlier eras: "For this was alien land, not only in physical appearance but in its harsh rejection of familiar custom; it forced people into new ways of looking at the land and themselves and changed them forever." Sometimes it seems to Madson that the prairie is throwing off the predatory creatures who have filled it and damaged it. That could be the ultimate irony. The U.S. is exhausting its topsoil and a few decades down the road could suffer from food shortages, not surpluses...
...RNNHVI solution is to sullen the laws on the resale of tickets. A harsh penalty could be levied on those individuals who resell tickets for profit. Perhaps they should be forced to go through the above ritual ad infinitum. Or maybe they should shown the real meaning of the term "scalp...
...point out, he has placed long-term goals above the need to alleviate immediate problems for undergraduates in a given four-year time period, standing behind the rules and ideology of the system rather than attacking preemptively what students see as tangible and pressing problems. This may seem a harsh conclusion, but the feelings which underlie it presume perhaps a different conception of the office than Fox has used in supervising the lives of undergraduates over the last decade...
...annual inflation rate and dwindling foreign-exchange reserves, the new government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres estimates it will need $4.1 billion in U.S. military and economic aid for fiscal 1986 (a $1.5 billion increase), and some $8 billion more in the following two years. Peres, in turn, promises harsh economic austerity measures that will nearly double Israel's unemployment rate, to 8%, and force real wages down to their 1982 level...