Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment, the Cuomo strategy seems to be to run for President by not running, reflecting the newest conventional wisdom that it may no longer be necessary to begin campaigning years before the nomination. In the relentless glare of the media age, overexposure can be more devastating than an undernourished organization, and the public can grow disenchanted with campaigners it knows too well. A candidate with a solid background and strong base (New York, say) might be able to patrol the sidelines--at least until near the end of 1987--and gain as a presence through his absence. With a ramshackle...
...offense in the second half was relentless as Wardenburg, McBride, and Felsen managed to keep Brown on defense throughout the afternoon...
Arbatov chose his subject well. He lectured the audience on the evils of Reagan et al. He accused the United States of accelerating the arms race. And he blamed the Reagan Administration for "waging a relentless battle against...
With one out in the seventh, though, the relentless Crimson squad--confronted with the possibility of losing both ends of a doubleheader for the first time since early 1982--earned its reputation as the present-day Cardiac Kids...
...apex of hysteria, then pulling a happy-ending miracle out of his hat. Ron Howard, even after Splash and Cocoon, ain't these guys, yet. When he lets his film relax into hip facetiousness, and when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker. Perhaps the brand of canny moral exuberance that Gung Ho finally prescribes is available these days only...