Word: relentless
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Thompson has been drifting into trouble for some time, a victim of bad luck, overconfidence and the relentless forces of change. In the past year and a half the agency has lost $50 million in billings, including such choice accounts as Ford's Pinto and Maverick cars, the domestic advertising for Pan American and Singer and all of Firestone. Thompson has snared about $30 million in new business during this period, so its net loss in billings over the 18 months has been held to about $20 million. Still, disenchanted investors have sent its stock tumbling from a high...
This learning, which lasts all year round, includes both religion and black heritage, but the emphasis is on relentless drill in reading and math. "We're preparing them for predominantly white high schools," says Clements. "They won't be getting ghetto tests there." The school's stern discipline includes even paddling as a last resort. So while classes in neighborhood public schools are frequently disrupted by unruly children, the Holy Angels are serene. Explains Sixth-Grader Diamian Bellamy: "If you shoot spitballs in class or throw trays in the cafeteria like you do in public school...
...sect numbers 8,000,000 members today, including at least 100,000 in the U.S. It was the founding force and remains the sustaining power behind Japan's third largest political party, the Komeito (Clean Government) Party. Its formula for success, both personal and collective, is simple: the relentless chanting of a brief ritual prayer before replicas of the sect's treasured Dai-Gohonzon, a camphorwood tablet inscribed with mystic symbols by a 13th century monk named Nichiren...
Labor Secretary James Hodgson denies that the agreement represents the use of employment quotas, a practice that President Nixon says he rejects. Hodgson asserts that the Administration is merely setting "goals." For many businessmen, faced with relentless Government pressure to hire precise numbers of certain minority-group members, the distinction between goals and quotas is often difficult to discern...
...advertisers, the Federal Trade Commission lately has often seemed like a relentless white tornado, working to make them come clean about their products. But the agency's most ambitious undertaking-a program to make thousands of big advertisers produce documentary evidence backing up their claims for product pricing, safety and performance-has so far proved a disappointing dud. Over the past year, the effort has produced a mountain of data but little more than a molehill of definite proof or definitive disproof of product plugs...