Word: stubborner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exiting with his chin stuck out was probably the only way Rose could go. He was blessed by the gods not so much with talent as with the insatiable drive to win. A competitor stubborn enough to play long beyond his prime -- and until he could break Ty Cobb's batting record -- a rookie who ran to first base when he was given a walk, a bruiser who plowed so hard into an opposing catcher during an All-Star game that he separated the man's shoulder, Rose was too vain and too arrogant to beg for mercy from...
...Richard Nixon's feel for foreign policy, but so far lacks his mentor's grip on grand strategy. He shares Jimmy Carter's fascination with the fine details of government, but understands better which pieces are most important. Bush says he learned from Reagan the importance of stubborn principle in politics, but he sees more clearly than Reagan the sweet reason of expedient compromise...
...descriptions of boots bursting into flame as perspiring Icelanders combat the creep of lava that threatens their fishing village, are fundamentally more dramatic than the mysterious workings of southern Louisiana hydrology. Yet all three elemental battles recounted by the masterly McPhee are unified by the most uncontrolled and stubborn of all forces: human nature...
Despite concerns that the expansion will falter, most economists believe a modest slowdown is necessary to suppress inflation, which had grown particularly stubborn in the past two years. Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 5.9% during the first half of 1989, up from 4.1% last year. "The economy was running too fast for its own good," says Francis Schott, chief economist for Equitable Life Assurance. "It was working itself up to an inflationary frenzy...
...making the affidavit public, the police clearly hope to bring in more evidence. Stevens has repeatedly refused to talk with them. At week's end authorities had begun the laborious task of sifting through the material gathered from Stevens' residences, searching for the clues that would solve the stubborn mystery at last...