Word: viciousness
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...pernicious effect on world economic growth. When countries are required to reduce or eliminate their balance of payments deficits, there are fewer customers for the products of industrialized nations and fewer buyers of basic Third World commodities such as bauxite and copper. The end result could be a vicious cycle that would dampen investment and lower incomes...
...Your vicious anti-Franco bias and rank hatred in your story of Spain's "return to democracy" (whatever that is) are what is expected...
...leaflets were part of an "incredibly vicious campaign" that included "isolated incidents of intimidation" of workers, who were frequently threatened with a loss of benefits if District 65 won the election, Pool said...
...members of the strife-ridden United Mine Workers voted, last week for a president, the overriding hope was that the election would bring an end to the vicious internal bickering that has plagued the union for the past decade. Instead, the outcome of the three-way race seemed certain to aggravate the tension. The final tally will not be completed until July, but according to unofficial results, President Arnold Miller squeaked to a second five-year term with 40% of the vote. His archrival, Lee Roy Patterson, an influential member of the union's 21-member executive board, took...
WIDERBERG provides two compelling portraits of men of flawed character behind the socially acceptable role of public servant. One is Lt. Hult, the victim's sidekick, a vicious bully who proudly wears his uniform on his day off. The other is the Commissioner, who presents a slick media image but is completely ineffective when presented with the crisis that ends the film. Both are scoundrels, but they are also cops, which blinds most people to their failings. Widerberg will have no such nonsense, and therein lies the strength of Man on the Roof...