Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of any official restraints, professors use reading period to burden students with a relentless barrage of new material. Before students can get down to the actual business of reviewing for final exams, they often must wade through a mire of additional lectures, homework assignments, and even hourly exams. Five years ago, when reading period was last reviewed, a student-faculty committee found that more than half of the 100 most popular courses met during reading period to cover new ground...
Second, and more important, Harvard has an opportunity as one of the most respected institutions in the world to make a bold public statement against apartheid. By putting its money where its mouth is, the University can demonstrate that as an institution devoted solely to the relentless search for and dissemination of truth, it stands for an end to the immoral, racist policies of South Africa...
...hosts won the contest with a relentless full-court press that forced a season-high 43 turnovers by the Crimson...
Modern democracy may be nothing more than an "accident" whose time on the stage of world history is almost over. Its survival in the face of relentless Communist success is highly unlikely, and will be decided before the end of the century. The West will have no one but itself to blame for its demise...
Schygulla, though, is a prima donna of passion. She learned her trade making 18 movies and TV films with the bold, relentless Wunderkind of German cinema, R.W. Fassbinder (Effi Briest, The Marriage...