Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However heartfelt and moving, Mondale's last appeal seems no match for the relentless Reagan campaign. In the final week Reagan's message will fill the air waves. A $19 million get-out-the-vote drive has already added 6 million Republicans to the rolls, and the G.O.P. has signed up legions of canvassers for Election Day. Says Political Director Rollins: "We know where our voters are and we'll turn them...
...city, and has a lot of his sense of outrage." Janeway triumphed in a two-year power struggle that divided the staff. When word circulated last year that he might be the heir apparent, some reporters protested directly to Taylor that they saw him as aloof, enigmatic and almost relentless in getting his own way. Put under orders by Winship and Taylor not to respond to attacks during what he calls "the year of gossiping dangerously," Janeway gradually won over his rivals and the staff, and at last week's announcement he was greeted with subdued but sustained applause...
That the physicist learned of his prize in transit was fitting. Known among his friends as "the Alitalia scientist," Rubbia, 50, frequently flies from CERN, located outside Geneva where he does his research, to Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where he teaches physics. His relentless energy and aggressive pursuit of ideas are what led to his discovery of three critical subatomic particles, ending a 20-year hunt that involved hundreds of scientists...
There is, similarly, no felt passion, political or otherwise, among the hit squad that controls Charlie or among its desperate opponents. So relentless are the obligations of this frenetic cast to the complexities of a story that involves locations in five countries, so tightly does Hill run his shuttle service between them, that there is no room for a particularizing word or gesture from anyone. The true subject here is the logistics of moviemaking, not the more wayward logic of history-tormented hearts and minds...
...take a telecourse," asserts John Flanagan, associate dean for nontraditional studies at Eastern Kentucky University, which is offering two of the Annenberg courses for credit this fall. "They go on whether you can study or not, whether you're sick or out of town. They're relentless...