Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans really happy in their relentless search for trim, regimented bodies? By most standards, they are the healthiest people in history, generally blessed with low cholesterol levels and normal electrocardiograms and blood counts. Yet they seem to have become so preoccupied with the quest for the elusive perfect physical condition, so haunted by the very possibility of sickness that they are unable to enjoy the benefits of good health. They love to go out in the sun, only to worry about skin cancer. They diet continually, but agonize about gaining weight. They exercise relentlessly, yet live in dread of heart...
Time was when T. Boone Pickens was the toast of Texas, a relentless raider who could outwit all those corporate bigwigs back East. Lately, though, Pickens' lone star seems to have fallen. His efforts to take over Homestake Mining, a leading gold producer, and KN Energy, a natural-gas company, have fizzled. Because of the continuing slump in the oil patch, profits at his Mesa Limited Partnership have dropped from $70.6 million in 1986 to $31.9 million in 1987, a performance so poor that Pickens has had to borrow money to pay dividends...
...Asia, the operation of an elaborate chain of U.S. spy drops and cutouts in Moscow, an Afghan guerrilla team shooting down Soviet helicopters with Stinger missiles, tense cookie pushing at a disarmament negotiation, and two separate KGB interrogations, including one involving sensory deprivation techniques that screen out even the relentless quack quack of your stewardess telling you to place seat backs and tray tables in the full upright position...
Besides better fiscal management, Roemer is offering something else that Louisiana is not used to: relentless honesty in government. He has created his own muckraking department, hiring veteran Times-Picayune Investigative Reporter Bill Lynch to serve as Louisiana's first inspector general. Lynch received enough reports of improprieties to prompt the Governor to replace all members of both the racing and the real estate commissions. Says Lynch, who is expanding his staff from twelve to 35: "If I had known as a reporter what I learned my first three days here, I could have won five Pulitzer Prizes." Louisiana residents...
...bleak years of 1980 through 1982, when it lost $3.26 billion, taught the company how devastating a recession can be. Philip Caldwell, Ford's chairman at the time, was forced to cut costs drastically and boost productivity. When Petersen took over as chairman in 1985, he oversaw an equally relentless slashing of expenses...