Word: viciousness
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...magnate and CBS-TV president Louis G Cowan Paul grew up in a totally assimilated New York home. His father read Dickens' A Christmas Carol aloud each Christmas eve and never spoke of his impoverished father Jacob Cohen, the descendant of respected Lithuanian rabbis At Choate, though, Paul encountered vicious anti-Semitism, from his peers. The experience made him piece together the memories of unexplained moments in his childhood--his father evading a question, or his mother insisting that the Holocaust gave Jews a special responsibility to fight social injustice--into a curiosity about his ancestral religion...
...false implication was that Beard's opponent, Democratic Senator Jim Sasser, had voted for foreign aid appropriations that had somehow benefited Communist Cuba. In California, Republican Peter Cost, a candidate for the state assembly, showed a TV spot in which three actors dressed up to look like especially vicious convicts sat around in a jail cell and praised Cost's opponent, Democrat Sam Farr, for opposing the death penalty...
...degenerate into violet and irrational anti-Semitism. Even at bastions of enlightenment such as Ivy League universities the Mideast political turmoil has led some critics of Israel to express their views by vandalizing sukkans. Fortunately the vast majority of observers have condemned such wanton destruction as a base and vicious way of making a political statement...
...scene giving us a real struggle. They're just crooks." Inventor Pete Avery of Phoenix says that De Lorean cheated him out of the lucrative rights to a widely used automobile coolant system. Yet Avery, after years of litigation with De Lorean, appreciates his charm. "He's a vicious man," says Avery, but adds: "I like the guy. That s.o.b. is the only guy I've ever known who has charisma. If he came into town today, I'd buy him dinner...
Salaries and fringe benefits now account for 75% of Los Angeles' $1.5 billion budget. Says City Councilman Ernani Bernardi, who makes only $43,923 a year: "It's a vicious cycle. It has to stop." According to him, the bloated wage scale results from a lack of fiscal restraint by the council and an arcane "prevailing wage clause" in the city charter, dating from 1925. In practice, the prevailing wage clause, requiring the city to pay its employees salaries at least equal to comparable jobs in the private sector, has become the rock-bottom minimum from which wage...