Word: relentlessness
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Whether Knight should coach forever-or ever again for the U.S.-was hotly debated by people who watched his treatment of players in Los Angeles. Knight is a relentless perfectionist; to him, a flawed victory is as unsatisfying as a defeat. Late in the quarterfinal against West Germany, Jordan carelessly dribbled the ball out of bounds. From the bench Knight bellowed, "Michael, get in the game!" With six minutes left to play in the semifinal against Canada and with the U.S. ahead 62-42, Guard Leon Wood threw a loose pass and was pulled out of the game...
...sere and predictable. Lloyd Webber is no longer content simply to write musicals; now he must mount spectacles for theatergoers who will accept something big in place of something good. The performers, led by Stephanie Lawrence and a break-dancing blur named Jeffrey Daniel, are energetic troupers whose relentless "high spirits serve to underline the inspiration, and ultimate destination, of Starlight Express: this is Vegas on ball bearings...
Diplomats and demographers, economists and family planners, the elite brigades of global social science, will converge on Mexico City next week to tackle a formidable issue: the relentless growth of world population. They will hear some good news. In the ten years since the last United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Population, which was held in Bucharest, the annual growth rate of the world's population has declined from...
Since early May, Continental has been eroded by the most relentless run on a major bank since the Great Depression. At least one-third of its $30 billion in deposits has drained away. Despite an unprecedented $7.5 billion in emergency loans from the Government and 28 private banks, the outflow could not be stemmed. The banking system's difficulties in helping one of its key institutions have diminished public confidence in all U.S. banks. Even though each deposit up to $100,000 in a federally chartered financial institution is insured, many Americans began wondering about the safety...
...magnetic field; normally it should lie in the galactic plane, its lines of force trapped like hair around a drain. Attempting to account for the bizarre properties of the field, some scientists are postulating the existence of a "dynamo" at the center of the galaxy, a source of relentless energy. But investigators cannot ascribe the dynamo to any known generating force, like giant stars or a black hole; those phenomena are too small to account for the size of the magnetic field...