Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children ages twelve to 17, from families earning $10,000 to $15,000, averaged 4.7 tooth fillings in the late 1960s? More to the point, would anybody care? That question did not seem to faze Commerce Department bureaucrats, who last week lovingly unveiled Social Indicators 1976, a 647-page, relentless compilation of statistics on just about everything you ever wanted to know about Bicentennial Year America. The lavishly illustrated tome was four years in the amassing. Trivia-mongers can buy it for $7 from the U.S. Government Printing Office. But scattered among all the more useless stats are some fascinating...
...difficult to find many real-life heroes to identify with, and this thins the soil out of which larger-than-life movie figures can be expected to grow. Beyond that, not nearly so many movies are being made nowadays, so there are fewer opportunities for the kind of relentless exposure that built the great star careers of the past. Finally, the movie audience now is much smaller, less habitual in its attendance and more urban and cosmopolitan. That audience has, for instance, all but buried the greatest of movie genres, the western, which stated and restated the most potent...
...Marcos' most relentless opponent, imprisoned former Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr., by contrast, last week savored victory of sorts. After hearing Aquino argue that his murder conviction under martial law was improper, a panel of Marcos-appointed judges temporarily suspended proceedings in the case...
...charlatan, paints with paperback Freud insights and melodramatic compositions so calculating that he sometimes makes Norman Rockwell appear primitive. Yet in the midst of a darkened landscape, Magritte can mysteriously illuminate the sky: on an ominous day he makes it rain identical men in bowler hats, as impassive and relentless as Kafka's bureaucrats. In such works the conjurer celebrates and mourns the human condition and shows why, despite his shortcomings and the shiftings of fashion, he remains a perennial favorite of connoisseurs as well as crowds...
...Under a relentless assault from cut-rate foreign competitors, the nation's steel industry has suffered through a nightmarish year. Steel imports have increased about 50% just since 1975 and in some months this year have captured 20% of the U.S. market. Combined with lackluster domestic demand, that foreign invasion has caused shutdowns of old mills, forcing more than 60,000 workers out of jobs in the past year. Steel executives, union men and a new caucus of Congressmen from steel-producing areas have brought heavy pressure on the Carter Administration to do something. The President's first...