Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several telephones at once. It was as if he had stored up millions of kilocalories of energy during his aimless years and was now unleashing them on an unwary Wall Street. "Boesky did not really need to cheat," observes Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens. And yet he did. His relentless drive to get an edge appears to have pushed him right over it. Boesky seemed to expect something like that might happen. "I can't predict my demise," he once said, "but I suspect it will occur abruptly...
...process of striking his settlement with U.S. authorities, the relentless wheeler-dealer who earned the nickname "Ivan the Terrible" talked long and hard to investigators about the stock trades he had made using insider knowledge. He also reportedly allowed regulators to eavesdrop on and tape his telephone conversations as he conducted his business dealings. Last week Boesky's singing began to discomfit some of the biggest names in the corporate-takeover business. Said Pierre Rinfret, head of a Wall Street investment and consulting firm: "This...
While the newcomers multiply, Japan's automakers continue their relentless march. They are expected to export to the U.S. all 2.3 million vehicles permitted under their self-imposed quota this year, exceeding last year's 2.2 million -- a formidable achievement, considering that the value of the Japanese yen is more than 20% higher in relation to the U.S. dollar than it was a year ago. The currency hike, experts believe, has added about $1,300 to the average production cost of an imported Japanese car. Even so, industry executives estimate that Japanese compacts and midsize cars still cost roughly...
Obsessed with extremely strenuous physical conditioning, some people have withdrawn into themselves, into a personal world of relentless physical exertion. Their problem, like that of a workaholic, is not the goal pursued, but the exclusivity and single-mindedness with which it is pursued. We have even had to create a new medical specialty, just to treat all the damage we inflict upon ourselves in our over-eager pursuit of fitness...
...past three decades, Author Anthony Burgess has produced a truly stupendous volume of writing. The number of his novels now approaches 30. There have also been more than 20 other books, including nonfiction, literary criticism, biography, children's stories, poems, plays and translations, not to mention screenplays and a relentless stream of uncollected reviews and journalistic pieces. This frenzy of production has made the author famous and, paradoxically, a tad unwelcome. Readers and reviewers, confronted regularly with someone who makes himself impossible to ignore, are likely to decide to do just that. A new Burgess? Never mind; let it pass...