Word: relentlessly
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Congress also moved belatedly to reclaim its right to oversee the operations of the Federal Government, notably the intelligence-gathering agencies. Both chambers established committees to investigate the CIA and the FBI. Result: a relentless flow of revelations about past abuses at home and abroad. The exposure was undoubtedly healthy-up to a point. But in the case of the CIA, it also severely hampered the agency's effectiveness. This year, the committees may well establish guidelines for the conduct of both organizations and try to restore the long-neglected function of congressional oversight...
...Durham for entertainment, and pick up your free pack of cigarettes, or drive off the Interstate and check out small-town grocery stores for local color. There are great peach stands in Georgia, and a huge amusement park outside Atlanta, a city that has resolved its existential dilemmas through relentless financial growth and self-promotion. Everyone in Atlanta is happy and young, pink-cheeked and double-knitted, a little overweight. You are reaching the outer limits of the Harvard-Eastern sphere of influence. You are entering Alabama. Your 1-95 days have come...
...Kubrick's curiosity was probably aroused by the chance to explore a character who is his antithesis. About his work Kubrick is the most self-conscious and rational of men. His eccentricities-secretiveness, a great need for privacy -are caused by his intense awareness of time's relentless passage. He wants to use time to "create a string of masterpieces," as an acquaintance puts it. Social status means nothing to him, money is simply a tool of his trade...
...Cross Campus Library at 9 o'clock Sunday morning, with hung-over students jockeying for the choicest seats; by late afternoon, places are difficult to come by. Faculty members muse publicly, as A. Bartlett Giametti did last week on the New York Times Op-Ed page, about a "relentless, pervasive tension about work." Yale students claim to work as much as 50 or 60 hours a week outside of classes. The Yale Daily News recently conducted a telephone survey of Yale and Harvard students in order to determine who worked harder. The outcome was preordained--what the News found interesting...
...ever went to more trouble than Rockefeller to attain an office for which he was, if anything, overqualified. He was subjected to relentless, often brutal questioning by his congressional investigators. Yet after less than a year in office he announced last week that "it's just not worth it" to remain on the ticket. He was candid about the reasons for his decision. "I came down to Washington to serve the country I love and to help in solving the problems which we face. I did not come down to get caught up in party squabbles. I came here...