Word: viciousness
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...Nicaragua, which was forced to turn elsewhere--i.e. to the Soviet Union--for economic assistance. Then word began to leak out that the Administration had okayed CIA plans to overthrow the fledgling regime. The Sandinistas initiated a significant military build-up and restricted human rights in Nicaragua. A vicious circle evolved...
...counterattack was swift and vicious. She was twice set up for drunken-driving arrests. A state van followed her car while she collected evidence of pardon fixes. Blanton's aides found a girlfriend of a convicted murderer who was willing to say that Marie had stolen credit cards for shopping sprees. Before Marie was fired in 1977, she went...
Artful Equivocations are even worse; Iynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam No. 40. Then our lynx eyelids 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. Or induce it. "The twentieth century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now one such might be droll enough...
...They just don't listen" is a familiar cry. Blacks become frustrated and angry, an attitude which University officials seem to interpret as radical malcontentism when they stubbornly refuse to give in to Black demands. This leads in turn to more bitterness and rage. And around in a vicious circle it goes, with hostility and misunderstanding feeding on each other and resulting in the very separatism and mistrust the University tries to avoid...
...background, personality, leadership ability, manners, hygiene, etc. As long as these individuals and special interest groups felt they had a monopoly on test scores, they pushed a "scores alone" policy, all other factors be damned. The rash adoption of this policy by all too eager educational institutions (and the vicious media manipulations of the subject) has seriously undermined the educational opportunities for many Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans not to mention the emotional pain and cultural stress it has caused these groups...