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Weld's first term featured a relentless, often brutal drive toward fiscal health for his state. In 1991, the year he succeeded Michael Dukakis, the state had to borrow $1.2 billion to pay its bills. On assuming office, he axed 8,500 state employees and then privatized everything from road maintenance to hospitals. Today short-term borrowing is well under $250 million. "Dukakis tried to bail out the sinking ship by hand," recalls Richard Larkin, managing director of Standard & Poor's municipal finance department. "Weld took the ship into dry dock and slapped a new hull...
...Rice was, says a State Department negotiator, ?totally relentless.? She deployed her full arsenal of pesuasive techniques alternating between charm, relentless badgering and the intimidating suggestion that the most trusted advisor of the most powerful leader in the world was not going to leave town until she got what she came for. "When she focuses on something," says a U.S. official present, "she will use whatever it takes...
...Parker, a psychiatrist for 30 years and director of the Black Dog Institute, a not-for-profit research, educational and clinical body specializing in mood disorders. "We see depressed people who've been undertreated and others whose illness is not quintessentially biological," yet their treatment has amounted to "the relentless pursuit of one physical treatment after another." Parker's experience is that, shortly after starting a course of SSRIs, about 7% of patients feel agitation ranging from moderate to profound, while an additional 1% or fewer show psychotic symptoms. "In my view a serotonergic reaction is a true phenomenon...
...duel began immediately after Abdullah ascended the throne in 1999, when he freed the Jordanian militant from prison in a general amnesty. Zarqawi, 39, had been jailed in the early 1990s on sedition charges after joining an Islamic fundamentalist group. He repaid Abdullah's royal gesture by starting a relentless terrorism campaign against Jordanian monarchy. In turn, Abdullah has stood firm against Islamic extremism and sought to bring Zarqawi to justice, cooperating ever more closely with the Bush administration's War on Terrorism...
...viewing since the dancers only faced one side; in contrast, during the second act’s use of the entire stage, the architecture increased the accessibility of the work, allowing audiences to experience all dimensions of the play. In her story, Chamundeshwari Devi resoundingly defeats the strong and relentless demon Mahisha in a 10-day battle, during which Mahisha transforms from a man to a tiger to a bull. In the fast-paced opening scene, purple, orange, and magenta costumes ran across the stage. Eight dancers with plastered smiles, kajol-lined eyes, and waist-length hair extensions wore...