Word: relentlessness
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...look at it." And in the strange half-light, people react to the same events in opposite ways. Bars show CNN instead of ESPN because patrons want the latest news, but a family doctor in a Chicago suburb cancels her subscription to the New York Times because the relentless coverage of fear and threats was taking a toll on her. Peace Corps applications are up 72% in San Francisco, even as Harvard alums fight to restore ROTC, and 100 times as many Smith College students turn out to meet the CIA recruiter as did a decade ago. People decide...
...while screaming into a microphone: "It's a jungle in today's tech world!" Even the keynotes have lost all philosophical pretensions and are little more than cheerleading rallies - or in the case of Oracle's Larry Ellison, the world's second-richest man, a chance to vent his relentless, Nixon-like obsession with the Microsoft enemy. "Did you hear? They're bundling lunch with Windows now," Ellison joshed the crowd. Yes, we had heard that one before...
When the Taliban lost this capital of northern Afghanistan, they set the pattern for the war. After days of relentless pounding by American bombers, the Islamic militia simply had no stomach for a fight...
...Catamounts, who made the jump from Division III to Division I this season, simply could not keep up with Crimson's relentless pressure. The puck seldom left the Vermont zone, as the Crimson outshot the Catamounts 57-4. Senior Alison Kuusisto recorded the shutout...
...fail to see that there is more at stake than catching a handful of psychopaths calling themselves warriors of God. What's at risk is the survival of the West. If we don't want to perish, we must get a firmer grip on our civilization. That includes a relentless fight against all those who threaten it and its values. ALEXANDER RAUH Pegnitz, Germany...