Word: viciousness
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Again, South Africa seemed trapped in a vicious cycle: the fear of repression had sparked resentment, and the expression of that resentment had set off more repression. But last week's disturbances were especially dispiriting because they seemed to mock a host of recent hints by the white minority government that it might be open to relaxing its system of apartheid, or official separation of the races. Less than three weeks before the rioting at Crossroads, the government had pledged to suspend, and reassess, its policy of forcibly resettling blacks. A week before the sudden arrest of the opposition leaders...
...market was glutted with cocaine, and the wholesale price of a kilo in Colombia plunged from $20,000 to $5,000 (it is now roughly $7,500). All the while, million-dollar bribes, backed often by threats, bought the coqueros official indulgence at home and abroad. "These are vicious people with huge amounts of money at their disposal," says Francis ("Bud") Mullen, head of the DEA. "That does inhibit individuals who would ordinarily support law enforcement...
...considered a crime, Joffe uses voice overs, mental "Dear Sidney" letters to expose the action and Pran's reaction. The technique backfires, and they might have been better off leaving off the whole section in Cambodian. A more intelligent solution would have been to use subtitles, letting the vicious regimentation of the Khmer Rouge speak for itself...
Artful equivocations are even worse lynxeyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such: but in quantity they become sheer madness...
...tried for murder but whether the whole abortion community should be tried for war crimes against a generation, which I think they should. They exploit for profit (those $150 fees add up) women at perhaps one of the most vulnerable times in their life, violate them in the most vicious way, kill what they know to be human life, and recently, there is evidence, conduct painful experimentation on fetuses and even sell their parts commercially. As for whether the father should be prosecuted, the common law answers that rather easily: if he is aided and abetted by harassing the woman...