Word: relentlessness
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Once the entire arms-for-hostages scheme unraveled, it became clear there would have to be a full, formal Iran-contra investigation. But Kerry was kept off the resulting panel. His high profile and relentless digging had made him a little too radioactive by that time. As a consolation prize, he was given the chairmanship of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, which led to the next wave of investigations into Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's drug trafficking, and money laundering through the Middle Eastern Bank of Credit & Commerce International...
...Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, another band in the growing crowd of NYC art-punks, whose flamboyant lead singer Karen O dates the flamboyant lead singer of The Liars, Angus Andrew—perhaps the Gwen and Gavin for a hipper generation? The Liars have a relentless experimentation that is their claim to uniqueness in this current crop, and in the material they debuted to Boston at TT’s, they demonstrated that they have not yet begun to enact their breakdown on conventional structures of rock and dance music...
Junior guard Kevin Rogus, Harvard’s leading scorer, was held to 10 points on 3-12 shooting thanks to a relentless Lehigh defense that, he said, “tried not to let me get the ball...
...animal-rights activists - and fur gets a lot of attention because it involves both celebrities and fashion - the use of animals in scientific research is acquiring a higher profile in the ethical battle for the hearts and minds of policymakers and public alike. Many within the movement apply relentless pressure to stockholders, suppliers and other business contacts, and some - a small substratum - believe that a proper response to violence against animals is violence against humans. Much of their fury has been directed at the occupants of a sprawling, quiet compound that sits behind black iron gates and a fence topped...
...Larson ’05 is right on one point in her recent column (“Glass Ceilings and Hypocrisy,” Nov. 21): “relentless gender politicking” has overshadowed Carol Moseley Braun’s presidential campaign. However, it is the media, Larson included, that has engaged in this unceasing emphasis on gender. Ambassador Braun has brought her innovative and exciting message for a better America through single-payer health care, sweeping civil rights advances, logical tax policy, and a global, cooperative foreign policy across the country. The media, however, has largely disregarded...