Word: relentlessly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fairness, this was just the first game of the season, and Harvard did show some flashes of the relentless forechecking that helped it win the ECAC title last year...
...center of gravity to Berlin and to deflect attention from Washington. On some fronts he's fighting a losing battle. He took time off last month to lend his backing to a conference of French-speaking nations in Lebanon in a futile bid to stop the relentless march of the English language, spearheaded by American popular culture. But he's not going to give up. His pistols may not be as powerful as George W. Bush's, but his aim is true. He will choose his targets carefully - and frequently - before he rides off into the sunset...
...Koizumi swept into office in April 2001 amid a wave of popular optimism. Eighteen months later, none of his mighty promises?such as privatizing bloated state-run companies and slashing wasteful public works projects?have come to pass. Relentless political opposition is partly to blame, as is capricious support from erstwhile allies in his own camp, who can't seem to decide if they need him more than he needs them or vice versa. In the meantime, nonperforming loans at the nation's banks have ballooned to between $420 billion and $1.05 trillion, the stock market flirts with 20-year...
...anyone in the history of the movies, with the possible exception of Stan Laurel. And he does it here with a stoned shamelessness, an absolute refusal of self-comprehension that is near awesome. Laurel had a kind of sweetness and innocence that enlisted our sympathy. Sandler's stupidity is relentless, merciless, distinctly off-putting...
...blame each other at every possible opportunity, knee-jerk responses that would be tediously predictable if the potential implications weren't so terrifying. The worry is that instead of cracking down on domestic extremists who threaten true progress, what Aqil Shah, an Islamabad political analyst and author, calls a "relentless exchange of accusations" will occasion a return to "the heightened tension of a few months ago." And yet that's where these two leaders who now have so much in common seem to be headed...