Word: viciousness
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...spend with each client, remains very inexpensive, which accounts for Washington's support of the program. Funds have been collected to accommodate 100 more methadone clients at different centers statewide. As the number of methadone users soars, one cannot help but note the development of an ironically vicious circle--heroin initially came into vogue as a cure for morphine addiction...
...your obituary of William Loeb, the New Hampshire publisher [Sept. 28], you used the adjectives splenetic, petulant, scurrilous, infuriating and notorious to describe the man and his methods. You passed over the one word that perhaps describes him best: vicious...
...however, hampers the nation's productivity and thus aggravates the problem of shortages. Moans Zygmunt Szeliga, deputy editor of the weekly Polityka: "People cannot work because they have to stand in line, and they have to stand in line because people are not working. It's a vicious circle...
...well as a cooling of ardor for civil rights issues among the nation's white majority. As the Rev. Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, observes: "Many of our allies in the 1960s now no longer offer support. Some are now among the most vicious opponents of affirmative action...
...leased and furnished a luxury apartment on Chicago's Gold Coast. She now divides her time between a $61,000 condominium in Boca Raton and a $500-a-month apartment in St. Louis. Informed of the newspaper's charges against her last week, Wilson called them "a vicious joke...