Word: relentlessness
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...citizens of the twentieth century, we have seen the mixed blessings of the relentless march of scientific "progress." Science conquered polio, but it also gave us the atom bomb. We live in a time when scientific ingenuity lights up our eyes with wonder even as it frightens us with the prospect of technological terror. The stinging criticism of Dolly is in part the sigh of a world community exhausted by the ethical dilemmas presented by science in the last sixty years...
...most fundamental it defines the base line of his blueprint for reform: a stubborn, inflexible resistance to political change. A hard-liner all his life, he was determined that economic liberalization would not sweep away the Communist Party's monopoly on power. He committed his successors to the relentless repression of democracy. Deng and some of the men now in power ordered the tanks into Tiananmen Square in June 1989 to crush the nascent democracy movement beneath a heap of bloody bodies. Since then, virtually all of China's political dissidents have been jailed or hounded into exile...
Meanwhile, Harvard converted 93 percent of its free throws in the second half, and outrebounded Princeton 44-27 for the game. A relentless defensive effort by the Crimson also forced the Tigers into 29 costly turnovers--costly because Harvard converted those mistakes into 37 points at its own offensive...
That incivility, especially from a country he considered honorable and sophisticated, helped spur Bronfman into a relentless campaign. "They had bought off groups before, and this was just a bigger bribe," he says. "I realized what they really wanted us to do was to take the money...
Sooner or later, B.U.'s relentless pressure had to tell, and it was lucky for the Eagles that they scored again before the Terriers responded. Reasoner's top-corner snipe at 1:25 of the third had all the trademarks of a game-winner--except that his opposition had no intentions of rolling over and dying...