Word: vicious
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...commanding about $40 per bbl. The price of heating oil on the East Coast is expected to increase from about $1 per gal. to perhaps $1.25 per gal. by early next year. Those rising prices are themselves encouraging cartel members to seek crude oil increases, thus intensifying the vicious circle of spiraling prices...
...Cyrus Vance and Stanley Hoffmann, Baruj Benacerraf, Muhammad Ali, Simon Schama and Selwyn Cudjoe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ann Ramsay, Nathan Huggins and Pat Sorrento, Al Dershowitz and The Quincy House Two, Shirley Hufstedler and Pere Ubu, Charlie Beckwith, Walter Cronkite, Alex Bok and Alex Haig, Francis Duehay, John Travolta, Sid Vicious and Jim Craig. Theda Skocpol, Lewis Brooks, Felix Rohatyn and Jorge Hankamer, Andy Warhol, Jerry Falwell, James Q. Wilson, Barry Commoner...
Although no longer the factory for the industrial world, the United States still carries the largest share of the burden for sparking global development. Muller attributes the stagflation that has mired national growth rates in a steady through to a vicious cricle of inflation and low productivity and likens the American scenario to the sputtering economies of less-developed countries. To combat what he calls this "Latin Americization" of the United States, he proposes concerted political efforts to both stimulate world-wide demand for American products and national consensus for greater efficiency and equity at home. Although he doesn...
Besides vindicating non-table manners, Rudofsky-assisted by Cooper-Hewitt's Lucy Fellowes-assembles a widely (some would say wildly) eclectic domestic history. In one display he indicts chairs as uncomfortable and unhealthy, particularly the infant high chair ("a vicious, sado-pedagogic trap, as humiliating to a child as a leash is to a dog"). Elsewhere, he charts the sly history of the swing, which he describes in his book as "a pale copy of a onetime bold device for generating violent motion and emotion" of a sexual nature, mostly in women. He suggests that all forms of "bobbing...
...tragedy began with a single vicious convulsion that rocked Italy from the tip of the southern Mezzogiorno to the Alps. At first the destruction seemed manageable, but then, slowly, the awful magnitude of the catastrophe began to emerge. Scores of communities had been leveled across 10,000 sq. mi. of the rugged southern countryside. Whole villages were obliterated. Uncounted thousands were buried in the wreckage of their homes, churches and cafes. Delayed by impassable roads, bad weather and bureaucratic ineptitude, rescue workers took 48 hours or more to reach the most isolated hamlets. Finally the digging-out gathered momentum, unearthing...