Word: relentlessness
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...vintage Rometty, whose people skills and relentless focus on the customer have some IBM insiders discussing her as future CEO material. At a time when many companies are increasingly skeptical about investing in new IT projects, Rometty is charged with making Big Blue--already the world's largest IT-services company, with $35 billion in annual revenues--into an even more pervasive presence in corporations. Her job is to persuade big customers to do one-stop shopping at IBM, to make it as dominant in high-level-strategy consulting as it is today in maintenance and outsourcing. By tapping...
...sophomore was at his best in the second period, when he did not allow a goal despite relentless BU pressure. The Terriers pinned Harvard in its own zone for nearly the entire frame, and only several spectacular saves by Grumet-Morris kept the sluggish Crimson close...
Connecticut put up a good fight but could not withstand the relentless pressure of the Harvard women’s hockey team, which won last night’s nonconference battle 5-1 at the Bright Hockey Center...
...Crazed is that "of an old hag so decrepit and brainsick that she would devour her children to sustain herself." As Jin sees it, the Chinese are walled in on all sides: the intellectuals by a culture of falsehood, the students by tanks and troops, the peasants by their relentless poverty and everyone by paralyzing fear. In Waiting, Jin explored the emotional cost of enduring within those walls, but in The Crazed the pressure is simply too much. The dream of so many can be deferred no longer. Like a stroke, the only way out is to explode, and suffer...
...doesn't help that his lovely and wise new novel, Seek My Face (Knopf; 276 pages), describes a long interview in which a journalist with a plain mind confronts a woman with more intricate workings. Hope, 78, is a famous American painter who is questioned by Kathryn, 27, a relentless art specialist who knows everything about postwar American artists except the deep sources of their power to throw thunderbolts. That she will never comprehend. "Interviewers and critics are the enemies of mystery," Hope thinks to herself, "the indeterminacy that gives art life." It's safe to say Updike has entertained...