Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disdain for lobbyists is sincere, should Perot provide leadership by example by ceasing his relentless lobbying efforts and dismantling United We Stand, his self-promoting lobbying organization...
...Familiar, isn't it? The yawning chasm -- accompanied, as for every apocalypse, by the death struggle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness: "We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction...
...Charles Colson. "Born again," Colson transformed his zeal for Republican politics (he once said he would walk over his own grandmother for Nixon) into a devotion to Jesus. He founded the Prison Fellowship, an organization designed to change the lives of convicts through a combination of practical assistance and relentless evangelism. Colson's two decades of commitment have worn down most of the skeptics who questioned the sincerity of his conversion, and last week he was awarded the most lucrative religious prize on the face of the earth: the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, which carries a $1 million...
Defense outlays will be curbed, but those cuts will be more than offset by the relentless rise of spending for entitlements like Medicare and for interest payment on the national debt. Bottom line: total spending will increase at an annual rate of 3%, roughly the equivalent of 1992's inflation rate but slower than last year's 4.4% spending growth...
...continues under the Russian government. The Chinese also regularly eavesdrop on U.S. firms. But the most active spying on U.S. companies lately has not been by agents from old cold-war adversaries. Instead, the spies are employed by allies, including Germany, South Korea and even Canada. Among the most relentless -- and efficient -- have been the Israeli secret services. Last year Recon/Optical, a suburban Chicago military contractor, charged the Israeli air force with trying to steal the blueprints for a top-secret airborne spy camera. The Israelis agreed to settle the case by paying $3 million in damages. The French intelligence...