Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only at the federal level. The total national, state and local deficit is about $100 billion to $110 billion. In a $3.8 trillion economy, that deficit is not as bad as the hysteria would have us assume. We should not panic. We should cut spending where possible. But a relentless pursuit of growth and jobs and extension of this recovery is the single most critical thing available to us to get the deficit down...
...lapses in judgment. Many others are mediocre. His budget is preposterously out of balance, and generally his programs have tended to hurt the poor. For these reasons, a large minority of Americans are neither charmed nor disarmed by the easy Reagan smile, the low-key Reagan warmth and the relentless Reagan sincerity...
...sort of anthropologist. She was a city person, passionately attached to Manhattan, who positively disliked the country. She became claustrophobic in native huts. She had little taste for artifacts. Her passion was for collecting people. From the time she took charge of her playmates' games, Mead proved a relentless organizer of others, regardless of their sex. In college, she formed the "Ash Can Cats," her first extended family, and bound these classmates to her for the rest of her life...
Whether Knight should coach forever-or ever again for the U.S.-was hotly debated by people who watched his treatment of players in Los Angeles. Knight is a relentless perfectionist; to him, a flawed victory is as unsatisfying as a defeat. Late in the quarterfinal against West Germany, Jordan carelessly dribbled the ball out of bounds. From the bench Knight bellowed, "Michael, get in the game!" With six minutes left to play in the semifinal against Canada and with the U.S. ahead 62-42, Guard Leon Wood threw a loose pass and was pulled out of the game...
...sere and predictable. Lloyd Webber is no longer content simply to write musicals; now he must mount spectacles for theatergoers who will accept something big in place of something good. The performers, led by Stephanie Lawrence and a break-dancing blur named Jeffrey Daniel, are energetic troupers whose relentless "high spirits serve to underline the inspiration, and ultimate destination, of Starlight Express: this is Vegas on ball bearings...