Word: relentlessness
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...That relentless self-reliance helped turn Stewart into a wealthy tycoon. But the future of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, the company she founded, will depend on a very different kind of corporate chemistry now that Stewart has been sentenced to serve prison time for conspiracy and obstruction after lying to federal investigators about a stock trade. Standing before Judge Miriam Cedarbaum last week in a courtroom in lower Manhattan, Stewart's voice faltered as she asked for leniency. "My hopes that my life will not be completely destroyed lie entirely in your competent and experienced and merciful hands," she said...
...proud that my knowledge went beyond mere stats. I liked that I knew Paul O’Neil was a relentless perfectionist who would practice his swing while exiled to the long lulls of right field play, or that Bernie Williams considered a career as a jazz guitarist before settling on baseball...
...beer cup in hand, watching an Ashes Test. Howard was there, too - in the Australian Cricket Board suite sipping wine with the chairman. Latham is more complex than the blokey caricature. It's true he's distinctly of his class, neighborhood and generation. But he has been brilliant and relentless, rather than lucky and knockabout, in his political career - which started the day he joined the Labor party as a boy. He's a striver and a bookworm who's never had a brush with cool...
...What makes the budget carriers such ornery opponents is their relentless cost cutting. Fernandes, who has dreamed up all kinds of ways to save money, claims AirAsia is the world's lowest-cost airline. He pays his flight attendants to clean planes instead of special crews, which not only lowers costs but chops the time spent boarding at terminals to 25 minutes-about half that of the major airlines. His pilots are trained to land at a later point on the runway and at a slower speed to conserve fuel and reduce wear and tear on tires. Half of AirAsia...
...every 4 new infections now occurs. HIV infection rates have hit new peaks in China, Indonesia and Vietnam. And in India, 5.1 million people are now thought to be HIV positive-making it second only to South Africa in number of cases. AIDS is not invincible, but it is relentless...