Word: relentless
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Confronting the relentless arithmetic of human reproduction is a bit like reading one of Futurist Herman Kahn's nuclear scenarios. One of them deals in "mega-deaths," and the other in what might be called "mega-lives," but the pall of a weirdly objectified apocalypse hangs over both. By the year 2000, some accountants of population figure, the number of the planet's inhabitants will double to 7 billion; by 2025, it will be 15 billion, by 2050, 30 billion, so that in less than a century there will be ten people living for every one now existing...
...contractor's cram-school approach or delighted when it boosts their kids' test scores? Whatever the answer, parents and taxpayers are legitimately fed up with the failure of many large public school systems to demonstrate anything but Byzantine bureaucracy and underachieving pupils. Making schools responsive to the relentless pressures of economics and competition may be a harsh way to force improvements-but stricter accountability is clearly needed to fill the present vacuum...
Davis finds it "very impressive that the young are relentless in their pursuit of what they feel is reason; they're not dissuaded." Thus, instead of going to college, which she considers unnecessary, Susan is working for YES (Youth Emergency Service), a telephone referral service for troubled kids, which she helped start in Minneapolis this year. Later she hopes to study in Europe. Says Davis: "You can't dismiss them as young, ethereal dreamers. Their premises, whether right or wrong, are based on homework. They make them...
Filth City. The most docile dogs irk city dwellers by tripping strollers with long leashes, muddying lobbies, preempting elevators and perpetually sniffing people. Dogs can give humans tuberculosis, create allergies and cause assorted eye and intestinal infections. New York Post Columnist Pete Hamill, a relentless dog baiter, speaks for many in labeling his town "Filth City." As he puts it: "Nobody can tell me that all those piles left around the streets are good for us, no matter how many burglars are scared off when the dogs are home...
WILLIAMS COLLEGE Ralph Ellison, LL.D., author. John V. Lindsay, LL.D., mayor of New York City. In facing the relentless problems and incredible demands bearing upon the mayors of our great cities, you have found the sensitivity to understand, the wit and the resilience to survive...