Word: relentlessness
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...sake of a permanent and just peace, one that would ensure that there are no more victims. And it is on that outcome that Zapatero is clearly betting. He has offered to talk to ETA at a time when the organization is at its weakest after 10 years of relentless pressure from the Spanish and French police and judiciary, which has not ceased - the group's extortion operation was dismantled two weeks ago. But ETA has not killed in the past three years, and Basques and Spaniards alike are, for the first time in a generation, seeing a light...
DIED. Evelyn Dubrow, 95, relentless, pragmatic Washington lobbyist whose advocacy for garment workers over 40 years on Capitol Hill earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom; in Washington. Affection for Dubrow was such that she became the only person ever to be granted her own seat alongside the congressional doorkeepers outside House chambers...
...DECEMBERUNDERGROUND Now that this once tiny hard-core band is a chart topper, you'd think AFI would be a little less miserable. It isn't, and its fans (the adorably named Despair Faction) love the group for it. But no matter, since AFI's relentless verbal gloom is trumped by huge glittering hooks. Miss Murder swaggers by with such confidence that if you block out the lyrics ("Miss Murder can I/ Make beauty stay if I/ Take my life?"), you might convince yourself that lead singer Davey Havok sounds a little happy. But good luck convincing the Despair Faction...
...from his post as U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Summers was Harvard’s first president to make the jump from Washington D.C. politics to what is arguably the ivory tower’s highest office. In many ways, this preparation proved to be a mixed blessing, engendering a relentless push for change that at once made Summers compelling and sowed the seeds for his downfall. Election cycles dictate the pace of activity in Washington D.C., and often it seemed as though Summers couldn’t leave that pace behind when he arrived in Cambridge. Initiatives were introduced...
...fifth floor of a fading pink-and-green building in New Delhi, Dr. Ashok Jhingan is waging a desperate battle against a relentless medical foe. In an office that's only a few degrees cooler than the sweltering city outside, Jhingan and his small team of doctors are tackling what could be India's biggest emerging health problem. No, it's not aids or cholera or malaria, each of which is tragically entrenched among the country's 1 billion people...