Word: relentlessly
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...updating stores without clear evidence of a return, and a firm refusal to play the short-term, quarterly-earnings game that Wall Street so often demands. In April, he brought in a design team led by former Gap executives to freshen up Kmart's clothing lines. "Eddie is relentless and a harder-nosed operator than most people want to believe," says Henry Miller, a leading business-restructuring adviser who worked with Kmart during its bankruptcy. "In point of fact, he is a retailer, in his mind. He will fight for a nickel, and mind every penny." (If anybody doubted...
...easy to see why so many troops are succumbing to stress. Every trip "outside the wire" brings the possibility of attack from any direction, from people who look like everyday citizens and from everyday objects--cars, oilcans, dead animals, even human beings--refashioned into deadly bombs. "It's relentless," says a Marine who was deployed in al-Anbar province, which includes violent hotbeds like Ramadi and Fallujah. "From the moment you arrive until the moment you leave, you're in danger." The life-threatening character of the daily job steadily erodes an individual's psychological immune system...
Malone has his legacy concerns too, which are what touched off this skirmish a few weeks ago. Long regarded as the consummate cable executive, he has built Liberty Media through relentless wheeling and dealing into a virtual mutual fund of cable interests, including QVC, the Encore and Starz! movie networks, stakes in Discovery Communications, Court TV, game-show channel GSN, DMX Music, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and others. Yet Malone has been unable to add value to this portfolio; the stock has gone nowhere in years and, at around $10, represents a hefty discount to Liberty's assets. Liberty didn't respond...
When I read about Hamer's discovery that brain chemicals responsible for regulating our mood are found in people who have traits of spirituality, a light came on. For 35 years I tried to regulate my wild mood swings with drugs, alcohol and relentless exercise. Not until I recently re-found my faith did my mood swings stop--completely. Now I understand why. JIM DUFFY Fort Atkinson...
...claim that final victory, the Crimson will turn to the same formula of balanced and explosive offense, relentless defense and surprising special teams that has propelled the squad to the cusp of perfection...