A model of development that could challenge these ruthless practices would make Disaster Capitalism a lot more convincing, but as an eyewitness account of the vultures' activities around the world, it does provide a useful warning.
Fuelled by a combination of foreign wealth, ruthless practices by rental agents and all kinds of strategies from the deep-pocketed house hunters, it is becoming increasingly challenging for the professional middle classes, not to mention lower-income workers, to afford to live in cities.
With Republican congressmen attempting to slash away at food stamp funding, how will Wal-Mart workers survive if the corporation maintains ruthless practices at home?
While robbing the Palestinians of their dignity, these ruthless practices have dehumanized the Israelis themselves and invited widespread international condemnation with far-reaching repercussions.
Corporations are now employing on our home population the same ruthless practices they engage in abroad by bribing officials to plunder host countries and their populations.
For Mr. Pinchuk, and many of his contemporaries in neighboring Russia, the prizes they extracted from the ashes of the Soviet Union were a function of brute political calculation and ruthless business practice.
Eventually their struggle to establish a monopoly led to the ruin of both their fortunes; in a parody of his customary ruthless business practice, it was left to that arch-monopolist Andrew Carnegie to step in and take over the funding of the hunt for dinosaur bones.
In 610 the ruthless domestic practices and weak foreign policy of the emperor Phocas (reigned 602 610) were challenged by the Exarch of Carthage.
A federal judge has given the world an unprecedented glimpse into the ruthless business practices Donald Trump used to build his business empire.
