Word: relentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spectacular surge in the value of American money is an abrupt reversal of a decade-long, disorderly slide that began in August 1971, when President Nixon severed the dollar's traditional link to gold. In the years that followed, relentless U.S. inflation and mounting trade deficits sent the dollar crashing on world money exchanges. In 1978 and again in 1979, the dollar plunged so precipitously that the U.S. Treasury had to spend billions propping up its value. But nothing worked for long. A dollar that bought 3.5 West German marks in 1971 was worth only 1.7 marks...
...princes, as everyone long ago learned from the fairy tales, can be turned into frogs. This relentless and terrifying movie is about how the organs of the state-acting in the best interests of society really-can do that to a man. For Danny Ciello (Treat Williams) knows that in enforcing the law, he and his partners have also bent the law. They have supplied confiscated drugs in return for help from junkie informers. Some of the money they have found on arrested dealers has ended up in their pockets. Beyond that, Ciello -whose story is based on that...
...nothing can withstand the relentless oil thirst of the "Outside." Yet the Pyrrhic stand has its effect: progress is stopped long enough for the reader to appreciate the value of natural Utopias-and a fiction that salutes them...
...start Hollender was as relentless in recruiting instructors as he is in attracting students. He would walk into a gourmet shop and ask the owner to teach a course in opening a food store. But today experts come to him asking to teach; he accepts only 10% to 15% of the applicants. Teachers earn an average of $30 to $40 an hour, and can make as much as $12,000 a year teaching one course a week. But for many the rewards are more than monetary. Says Rand: "Anyone who works hard all day and enrolls in this kind...
...Mornings on Horseback finally lacks the salient characteristic of the Roosevelts-enthusiasm. In spite of Teddy's strenuous self-improvement and relentless selfdiscipline, McCullough finds something spoiled about the prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife...