Word: relentlessness
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...urbanization of the globe is more than an aesthetic problem. Human sprawl threatens the habitat of most animal and plant species--except for cockroaches, rats, pigeons, crabgrass and other organisms that thrive with mankind. Relentless human expansion is the main reason the world is fast losing its biodiversity, raising the specter that we will eventually live, in the words of writer David Quammen, on a "planet of weeds." If that danger doesn't seem imminent, consider this: sprawl is paving over the land we need to grow our food. Since 1981 the amount of land around the world devoted...
...have carried a big stick in foreign policy, but Teddy Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment was domestic. Curbing the relentless private exploitation of America's natural treasures, especially in the West, he brought millions of acres of land into the public domain, helped by the indomitable Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), head of the revitalized U.S. Forest Service. Favoring rational exploitation of resources, T.R. and Pinchot were not environmentalists in the current sense. But together they made conservation national policy for the first time in U.S. history...
Around the world, water supplies face relentless threats from industrial waste, agricultural pollution and poor sewage treatment. The battle to protect water purity must be fought not just by national governments but also in every town and village on the planet...
Carefree shoppers have no greater nemesis than Alan Greenspan. The relentless Federal Reserve chairman has been tweaking our collective guilt for months now, urging us not to stake our fortunes on the mercurial stock market and reminding us that our security depends on prudent savings plans. And now Greenspan will have additional ammunition for his attack on spendthrifts: According to new government reports, U.S. consumer spending outpaced personal income in February, and savings dipped to a record...
...Pioneers won the fourth game 16-14, but could not stave off the relentless Crimson attack in the deciding game...