Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...married Jane Ann Byrnes, a manager at a shoe company whom he had dated at Northwestern. Immersing himself in the affairs of his old south-side neighborhood, where delivery of city services was the major issue, he rose from ward committeeman to the board of aldermen by 1971. With relentless energy and a flair for press coverage, Gephardt helped residents keep grocery stores and hospitals in the neighborhood and massage parlors out. He developed a quick eye for compromise, harnessing reluctant conservative aldermen to his own group of Young Turks to start the city's revival. Many logically pegged Alderman...
...Crimson responded to the hex by doing what it had to do in the third period: applying constant pressure on the Eli net and scoring. When the final buzzer sounded, the Crimson had ended the jinx with a relentless four-goal barrage...
...1940s brought a plague of these film-noir harpies, from Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven to Barbara Stanwyck in almost anything. Edgar G. Ulmer's relentless Detour (1946) cast Ann Savage as a harridan from hell -- the worst pickup of poor Tom Neal's life -- whose grating voice is, finally and poetically, strangled by a telephone cord. And as feminism found its voice in the early '70s, Hollywood shouted back. In Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me (1971), Jessica Walter is a woman who has a brief affair with a Carmel, Calif., disk jockey (Eastwood...
...last night, Harvard did not play the somnabulist, scoring three goals in the first 11 minutes of action and putting relentless pressure on Bruin goalie Chris Harvey. If the Crimson's offense provided a flying puck fest, the defense added some aggressive zest...
...stocks surged so high this year that they were bound to crash, part of the blame belongs to America's relentless band of corporate raiders. As takeover titans battled to outbid one another, the share prices of many target companies -- or companies merely rumored to be targets -- reached unrealistic levels. Now, in the aftermath of Black Monday, the big deals are crumbling, and the raiders are retreating. But for how long? Is this the nadir of the raider, or will sagging stock prices make the targets more irresistible than ever...