Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...returned to Dasht-e-Rivat. Farmers can be seen working the fields with wooden plows; young men mix straw and mud to patch bomb holes. One sagging roof is propped up by an unexploded Soviet bomb. But in villages like Jakdalag, 30 miles east of Kabul, the relentless assault upon civilians has taken its toll on the guerrillas. The deserted settlement is pockmarked with bomb craters and littered with spent shells, some measuring 10 ft. in length. Since bombs first began tearing the community apart three years ago, all its farmers and all but one of its 400 families have...
...found that their greatest source of stress was the changes in society's attitudes toward sex, including sexual permissiveness and "the new social roles of the sexes." While stress might have once taken the form of an occasional calamity, it is now "a chronic, relentless psychosocial situation," says Dr. Paul Rosch, director of the American Institute of Stress in Yonkers...
...relentless stresses of poverty and ghetto life have also been associated with higher health risks. Studies of poor black neighborhoods in Detroit and Boston have correlated hypertension, which is twice as common among American blacks as among whites, with overcrowded housing and high levels of unemployment and crime. Research conducted in Massachusetts by Epidemiologist David Jenkins, now on the faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, showed that the two areas with the highest mortality rates in the state were the Boston black ghetto of Roxbury and the working-class white enclave of South Boston, which...
...soon to be named M.V.P. of the league for a third time, is the "center of the '80s." They are so unalike they are fascinating. Abdul-Jabbar is complex, Malone uncomplicated. When Moses won his first M.V.P. distinction, largely on the strength of his relentless offensive rebounding, he thanked his teammates for missing so many shots. "Kareem is the best player of all time," says Moses flatly. But he also says, "If I can get close to the hole, I don't care who is in there. It's over." For him, basketball and life seem...
...finally, it is not Chaplin's profligacy that awes the viewer of Unknown Chaplin but the relentless perfectionism of his all-encompassing ego and, curiously, a sort of higher frugality. He seems never to have forgotten a good idea, returning to half-formed conceptions years after they occurred to him in order to perfect them. Brownlow and Gill have, for instance, found home movies taken at a Douglas Fairbanks party that show Chaplin dancing with a globe. Something like a decade later, that little improvisation becomes the basis for The Great Dictator's strongest image, that...