Word: relentlessness
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...head TF was relentless, though, awakening the editor Monday morning with a phone call demanding that she drop the course. To compound the problem, the head TF's English was not the best, leading to a long and convoluted conversation in which the editor informed the TF that she was trying to drop the course...
...teams played a scoreless first half. Harvard's strong defense, led by captain Joe Bradley, managed to hold off the relentless BU attack. Sophomore goalie Ned Carlson (four saves) made a number of fine stops, one of a BU head ball and another on a one-on-one with the Terriers' leading scorer...
Young, who is generally regarded as one ofHarvard's most relentless negotiators, said shehas not discussed the officers' efforts to makethe details of their negotiations public. But, sheadded, "It seems to me that agreements are usuallyreached at the table and not somewhere else...
...That relentless will to survive and conquer has now led Redstone, 70, the chairman of MTV-owner Viacom Inc., to launch what could be the business coup of a lifetime. At an age when most executives are thinking country clubs and conferences, Redstone last week engineered an $8.2 billion offer to acquire Paramount Communications for $69.14 a share in cash and stock and thereby create one of the world's media giants.Since Redstone would hold 70% of the voting stock of the combined company, he would have majority control of more movies, books and television shows than any other media...
Gorecki's compositional language has changed over the years; it is a long way from the atonal pointillism of the Symphony No. 1 and the relentless brutality of the Choros I to the contemplative beauties of the Quasi una Fantasia quartet of 1991. The symphony, so typically "modern" in its harsh sonorities and deliberate absence of melodic appeal, is not much different from what Boulez and others in Western Europe were doing at about the same time; the Choros, meanwhile, is clearly influenced by Gorecki's countryman Krzysztof Penderecki, notably by the Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima...