Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Energy Data Administration. This is a pet project of Schlesinger's, a relentless dataphile, who is dismayed about the lack of reliable information on such vital matters as reserves of natural gas and production possibilities of gas and oil. He does not trust industry figures or believe they tell Government enough to make sound policy decisions. In a tactful way, Carter made the same point in his news conference: "I want to increase the surety that the reserve-supply data given us by the oil companies and others are accurate...
Meanwhile, the gathering momentum of protest against human rights violations in Eastern Europe was meeting relentless government opposition. In Prague, along with continuing attacks on dissidents, authorities intimidated Western newsmen in an effort to mute news of widespread dissident activity. Correspondents Paul Hofmann of the New York Times and Walter Kratzer of the West German magazine...
...Such relentless pressure on political prisoners' families is not just the regime's revenge against those who oppose it. It is far-sighted strategy. Those people who do not fear for themselves must fear for their families; they must know that their wives and children will go hungry, cold and homeless, will be subjected to humiliation, so it is better to give up any thought of dissent...
...watched Jimmy Carter's Inaugural receptions would think that the entire capital would be down with mononucleosis by now. For a man once regarded as remote behind his barricade of teeth, Carter is a formidable social kisser, somewhat more subdued about it than Lyndon Johnson, but just as relentless. During his Inaugural parties, Carter gave a virtuoso performance, clutching women one-handed or two-handed as he delivered his kisses of greeting...
...deeply on a sexual relationship that may have some resemblance to that of my par ents, regardless of whatever literary connotations may be brought to it." Miss Stevens is at her best describing the physical and intellectual ventures of her father - the failed newspaper reporter, the awkward courtier, the relentless reader and overheated connoisseur of painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form, as an honorable 19th century fig ure who believed that there was some thing disreputable about a poet who did not earn his own living. It is only upon examination...