Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With that, the White House launched the eleven-member Commission on Strategic Forces, chaired by retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft. It followed up with a relentless five-month campaign to convert wavering Democrats and Republican moderates. The payoff came last week: a 239-to-186 House vote-which was the big test-then a 59-to-39 Senate vote to release $625 million in MX flight-testing and development money. It was a resounding political victory for Reagan. Exclaimed the President to Duberstein: "Fantastic...
...spikers' relentless teamwork continued to handcuff Princeton in the next two games. Harvard built 9-2 and 13-5 leads before Ross smothered the Tigers with his towering defense, giving the squad its final two points. In the third game, the same strategy paved the way to a 15-7 Harvard triumph...
These funding levels are tragically inadequate for a disease that a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control has called "a relentless epidemic" and "the most important public health problem...
...film dominated by gripping, often painful truth, one character rings especially true when he notes that regardless of the outcome of a long-awaited rumble, "Greasers will still be greasers, and socs will still be socs." "This relentless fact allows the delinquents' ethic to go unchallenged. It goes a long way towards explaining the loneliness and sadness that grips the outsiders in this film and those on the streets today...
...edge of a training table in St. Petersburg, Fla., after pitching five innings against Toronto, allowing four runs in the second inning but none in the others. There is that signature streak of dirt on Seaver's pant leg below his right knee, residue from the relentless scraping of an unchanging delivery. He has not changed so much at that. Most young throwers get to the major leagues with "good stuff' and only fall back on pitching later. But Seaver could always pitch...