Word: relentlessly
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...last three quarters we effectively shut down MIT's top threats," said sophomore driver Mike Masterson. "On the offensive side, we wore them down with relentless counterattacks...
That may not be saying much. If you consider what we know now about the presidents who served from January, 1961 to August, 1974 (John Kennedy's Addison's disease and Dr. Feelgood drugs and relentless risky sex; Lyndon Johnson's grandiosity and paranoia, and Richard Nixon's blackly coiled weirdness) - why you have to wonder how the Republic survived...
...Clinton. Of what other president could you say that after two full terms (and relentless scandal - impeachment even!), he looks fresher, livelier, than he did when he came into office? Clinton is a phenomenon - of resilience, of survival, of some life force (either heroic or sleeplessly cunning) that causes his admirers to marvel and his moralist critics to foam at the mouth...
...hair and radical talk, the locals might have overlooked the Dumas's reincarnation. They have survived far worse, particularly the collapse of mining. More than 100,000 people once lived in this city (current pop. 35,000), and it acquired two nicknames: "the Richest Hill on Earth" (the relentless digging of Butte's copper turned it into the nation's largest Superfund site) and "the Perch of the Devil." It was where miners could rise from the underground to, as local booster Donal Moylan puts it, "fight, f___ and drink...
...cornerstone of Republican foreign policy, as ever, is a strong defense. But many of the principles enunciated by Rice and other sober GOP internationalists may be sharply challenged by the party's relentless determination to build a comprehensive missile defense system, which will dramatically increase tension with Russia and China and strain relations with Washington's European NATO partners. (Come on, guys - you know the reason they're opposed is the system's impact on the strategic balance, not because Clinton hasn't done a good job of selling it to them, as Governor Bush regularly implies...