Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard, Captain Tyler Rullman and two-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week, Mike Gilmore, tossed in 16 points each to go with freshman forward Darren Rankin's 14, but it simply was not enough against Hartford's relentless run-and-gun attack...
...managing editor, intends to build. Formerly the managing editor of our sister publications People and, more recently, Life, he brings to your magazine a sure intuition of what matters most to you and a dedication to founder Henry Luce's original imperative for TIME. His definition of that is "relentless curiosity." TIME, he says, must be "eternally young and fast moving and flexible, able to respond instantly to changes in America's smallest and largest concerns...
EVEN AS SEARS SLASHED ITS PAYROLL, THE RELENTless pace of layoffs and cutbacks sent America's commercial aviation companies into a tailspin. Faced with plunging airline orders, industry leader Boeing announced that it would cut production of its entire line of aircraft models, which analysts said could eliminate as many as 30,000 of the company's 130,000 jobs. At the same time, struggling McDonnell Douglas said it would slash 8,700 positions from the firm's commercial aircraft division, or 10% of the work force. And Pratt & Whitney, the jet-engine subsidiary of United Technologies, plans to pare...
...RELENTLESS DAYS, HUGE waves and strong winds mercilessly pounded the oil tanker Braer, grounded on the rocks of Fitful Head in the unspoiled Shetland Islands. Bit by bit, the cargo of 26 million gal. of Norwegian light crude leaked into the sea, turning it chocolate brown. On the seventh day, the pounding caused spouts of oil to gush spasmodically from deck hatches, making the tanker look like some pitiful beached whale blowing black blood in the throes of death. The following day the ship did die, splitting into at least three pieces and releasing all its remaining oil into...
...dreams of creating a second Serengeti, fulfilling the fantasy of those who begrudge nature its sparseness and exquisite balance. This is more than bad biology, and it is sadly fitting that it should befall the wolf. A majestic symbol of the wild and a victim of man's relentless efforts to eradicate what he cannot control, the wolf is the very embodiment of our conflict with nature. In the skies over Alaska, when the rifle barrels slide out the helicopter windows and take aim at the first frightened wolves below, mankind will once again demonstrate its awesome power...