Word: relentlessly
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...tech industry in which news seems to trudge to the same dreary drumbeat--a relentless sales downturn, profits stagnant at best, venture capitalists with their wallets shut tight--at least Larry Ellison can still come up with a surprise. The founder of Oracle--one of the world's richest men, with company stock worth more than $17 billion--spent last week pushing a hostile bid to take over rival business-software firm PeopleSoft for a lowball price of $16 a share--about 50˘ less than the market value of the stock. Neither analysts nor competitors seemed sure whether to take...
...persistent Republican efforts to discredit her husband. But the Clintons were hardly blameless, and her case is damaged by oversimplification and opacity--her insistence on secrecy, her terrible choice of friends and business partners, her profits in the commodities market (another case of creative naivete), her husband's relentless fudging and lawyering of the truth. She doesn't mention the damage caused by his 1992 military-draft controversy, when Bill Clinton misled the press about receiving his induction papers--the first breach of faith in a disastrous relationship with the media. This is such a long book, and there...
...live. The music is also where the irony is. It's so airy and chipper that when mixed with the lead weight of the lyrics, it induces a pleasant sense of numbness that, given a few drinks, might be mistaken for depth. Everything Must Go doesn't have the relentless catchiness of their late-'70s work, but Fagen and Becker do seem happy in their advancing misery. That's the immortality they share. --By Josh Tyrangiel
Bloomstein is a member of ACID—the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development—which residents formed last year, according to the group’s mission statement, in the face of “2, 5, 10, 15 years of relentless excavation, construction and vibrations...
...They did their homework,” Kirshner says. “They were relentless in a nice way. What’s amazing is that they were able to effect change...