Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jobs in the CIA and the Bush vice presidency. Grobmyer's plan was heard far and wide: it reached Clinton twice by letter, and it landed in offices as high as Deputy National Security Adviser Nancy Soderberg's. In fact, it so consumed White House aides that the relentless Grobmyer was dubbed the "pitchman" by an insider. But for all the boasting he did about his presidential connection, Grobmyer came away without the environmental waivers he needed to deposit the radioactive waste in Palmyra atoll, a U.S. territory where this kind of storage is prohibited...
...when the sky is falling. ABC Entertainment president Jamie Tarses, by contrast, looked a little battered during an interview last week, taking long, contemplative pauses before answering even seemingly simple questions. There was the weight of the world in those pauses--or, just as burdensome, the weight of a relentless Hollywood lobbying campaign against her, a stream of rumors that after a season of dismal ratings, she'll soon...
...prime target being poor Anton. We, in turn, find ourselves in a theater of cruelty, which is about the last place we expected to be if we believed the ads and the trailer, consoling ourselves with incidental pleasures: the anti-comedic darkness of Dunne?s lighting and sensibility; the relentless, half-mad meanness of Ryan?s performance; the snarling strength Karyo demonstrates in multiple adversity. Too bad we can?t reward their bravery with the sound of more than one hand clapping...
...makes up in peppiness. Spouting acronyms while standing at a blackboard, he approaches the energy level of Robin Williams. He is British (an Oxford physics major), but to watch only his hands as he talks, you'd guess Italian. Five, six years ago, during his "evangelizing" phase, this relentless enthusiasm was what pushed the Web beyond critical mass...
...Democratic Forces have surged across two-thirds of the vast nation, while Mobutu's untrained and underpaid soldiers ran away from town after town or laid down their weapons and cheered the new regime. International diplomats stepped in last week to avert a final clash as the rebels' relentless offensive, apparently unopposed, neared the capital of Kinshasa...