Word: relentlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a year, the government of President Jose Sarney has been under relentless attack from environmental activists worldwide. They charge that its policies are not only resulting in the wanton destruction of Brazil's forest, its wildlife and its native peoples, but are also endangering the world environment. Scientists say the fires set by ranchers and homesteaders in the Amazon region are spewing into the atmosphere 7% of the carbon dioxide responsible for the global warming process known as the greenhouse effect...
Those days are long gone. Last week's panics over poisoned grapes and tainted apples were merely the latest in a relentless series of food scares. Anyone who reads newspapers or watches TV knows that invisible dangers lurk in every aisle of the grocery store. Shoppers have been told that the produce is peppered with pesticides, the boxes and cans packed with treacherous additives, the meat stuffed with powerful drugs, the chickens spattered with bacteria, and the fish steeped in chemical wastes. Even the cool, clear water that comes out of every kitchen tap is suspected of being a witch...
Konovalchik's relentless determination on the mat and in the wrestling room has pointed the younger wrestlers on the right track, enthused the veteran wrestlers and made Peckham's job a lot easier...
...Penn offense spent little time in the goal area before Harvard's defense bullied the ball away from them and reeled it back up the field. The relentless Crimson defense made up for the frustrated offense...
...SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie (Viking; $19.95). Charges of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad have put Rushdie's book into international headlines. But the author's relentless artistry pervades this encyclopedic fiction about the explosive, often comic, meetings of East and West...