Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Diplomats and demographers, economists and family planners, the elite brigades of global social science, will converge on Mexico City next week to tackle a formidable issue: the relentless growth of world population. They will hear some good news. In the ten years since the last United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Population, which was held in Bucharest, the annual growth rate of the world's population has declined from...
Since early May, Continental has been eroded by the most relentless run on a major bank since the Great Depression. At least one-third of its $30 billion in deposits has drained away. Despite an unprecedented $7.5 billion in emergency loans from the Government and 28 private banks, the outflow could not be stemmed. The banking system's difficulties in helping one of its key institutions have diminished public confidence in all U.S. banks. Even though each deposit up to $100,000 in a federally chartered financial institution is insured, many Americans began wondering about the safety...
...magnetic field; normally it should lie in the galactic plane, its lines of force trapped like hair around a drain. Attempting to account for the bizarre properties of the field, some scientists are postulating the existence of a "dynamo" at the center of the galaxy, a source of relentless energy. But investigators cannot ascribe the dynamo to any known generating force, like giant stars or a black hole; those phenomena are too small to account for the size of the magnetic field...
...distance runner: "I love to run." Some of Decker's zeal may stem from her childhood, the feuding and eventual divorce of her parents: "If you come out of things like that in the right frame of mind, you're just more competitive." Such resolve exacts a toll. Her relentless training has led to a series of injuries, including one that kept her out of the 1976 Olympics. Then came her two dramatic victories last summer at the world championships in Helsinki, making Decker, who will run only the 3,000 meters in Los Angeles, the favorite for Olympic gold...
Ferraro must now prove her ability to operate successfully in the even more daunting arena of national politics. She will have to convince men everywhere, and women as well, that she is equipped to do what only men have done before: run the nation. She will expose herself to relentless public scrutiny with little more than wit and common sense to shield...