Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the past century, the organized bar in the U.S. has waged a relentless and effective campaign against lay judges. In Vermont, which is still governed by a part-time legislature where lawyers are in a minority, most efforts to curtail the assistant judges' power through legislation have failed...
...pulp prodigy and becoming one of Josephine Baker's lovers. His invention of Maigret in 1930 soon brought him vast wealth, international celebrity and the freedom to pursue a more complete, often cruel self-absorption. To those close to him he was imperious and burdensome. His relentless couplings, conjugal and otherwise, were by his own account often starkly physical events, devoid of sentiment. One marriage ended in divorce, another in bitter estrangement. Two of his sons left home as early as possible, while his daughter conceived an incestuous attachment to him that ended in her suicide...
...than those described by Döblin. I had . . . unconsciously made Döblin's fantasy my own life." In 1980 he got the chance to turn his life into a movie, when Bavaria Studios gave him $6 million for a 14-episode film of Berlin Alexanderplatz. The relentless, triumphant result-15 hours, 21 minutes of degradation redeemed by art-opens this week in a Manhattan moviehouse. (It will be shown in five weekly segments, each about three hours long...
Competition can be as rough-and-tumble inside Japan as anywhere else in the world. Price cutting is relentless and often ruinous. A Casio digital wristwatch that cost $120 five years ago sells today in Japan for only $12 to $15. Since 1975 the price of a simple hand-held calculator has decreased from about $25 to $10. That drop has forced more than 30 Japanese companies out of the calculator business, leaving six firms at the moment. Says Kenichi Ohmae, manager of Tokyo operations for the McKinsey & Co. businessconsulting firm: "By no definition can this fierce rivalry be construed...
...control. Government spending became too lavish. Subway systems under construction in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, which have absorbed $2.1 billion so far, are the most expensive per mile in the world. Runaway deficits led to more and more foreign borrowing and fueled relentless inflation, which already averaged 20% a year in the early 1970s. When the global energy crisis hit in 1973, Brazil was overextended and vulnerable. Over the next six years, the country had to pay $35 billion, all of it borrowed, for oil imports...