Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressure to demonstrate higher earnings in every financial statement becomes relentless. Instead of using revenues to bolster research and development, some companies feel obliged to spruce up their profit-and-loss statement. Says Chief Financial Officer Victor Richmond of Williams-Sonoma, a chain of kitchen-supply stores that went public in July: "Everything we do today is done with the thought, 'Hey, somebody's going to take a look at this...
...custom or propriety, that is precisely what would have happened. But Alfonsin seemed unaware that one does not put the military on trial; and, in any event, graves seemed to be popping up all over the countryside at an alarming rate; and there were those irritating women, of course, relentless ambulatory photograph albums. So the issue never did disappear. It must be very discouraging for the military, all that work for nothing...
Most destructive of all, Moscow continued its relentless piling up of arms. In 1977 the Kremlin started emplacing mobile, accurate, triple-warhead SS-20 nuclear missiles in the Far East and in the western U.S.S.R.; those in Europe vastly increased the destructive power aimed at U.S. NATO allies. The SS-20s were supposedly intended to counter the threat posed to Moscow by British and French nuclear weapons, but by the end of 1978 they already exceeded the British and French forces in the number of warheads...
...always use the bypass? The answer lies in the nature of coronary heart disease. Arteriosclerosis, the buildup of fatty deposits in the arteries, continues to worsen no matter what the treatment (although patients who quit smoking, reduce fat in their diets and exercise regularly may improve their prognoses). So relentless is the disease that in 10% of bypass patients the newly grafted blood vessel becomes completely blocked within six months of surgery. For the more fortunate majority, blood will continue to flow through the bypass graft for years; however, other arteries may become clogged...
...Robert Aldrich, 65, film director whose works of macabre-to-macho violence included the Bette Davis-Joan Crawford shocker What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), the Burt Reynolds gridiron prison melodrama The Longest Yard (1974), and The Dirty Dozen (1967), which at the time sparked complaints about its relentless brutality; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. Scion of a prominent New England family and a Rockefeller cousin, Aldrich rejected a banking career to start as a $25-a-week production clerk at RKO studios...