Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that donations and volunteers began to flood in, and Mother Teresa became a household name. Ten years later she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. "She was not a publicity seeker," said Ostling. "But in terms of public image, there is nobody comparable to her." Her tireless efforts have enriched the lives of the poor; today, the world itself is much poorer for her passing...
Andrew Cunanan created his own worlds too. They just didn't work out. For years he had insinuated himself into the lives of well-off, older gay men. An adroit and tireless liar, he told friends in San Diego he was Andrew DeSilva, a man with a factory in Mexico, or wealthy parents in the Philippines, or a wife and daughter--the ones in the photo he would pass around that he got from who knows where. But by last April, when police say he started a cross-country killing spree that climaxed in the fatal shooting of Versace...
...actor waiting for him to bark out a stage direction, they satisfied their constituency. Edgar G. Ulmer, the vagabond king of grade-Z films, directed the black musical Moon over Harlem--as well as pictures in Yiddish and Ukrainian--all in the same year (1939). These guys were tireless: from 1935 to 1945, hack-of-hacks Sam Newfield directed an impossible 150 quickie movies, including the grindhouse curio The Terror of Tiny Town, the only all-midget singing western...
What makes today's economy one for the books, TIME's panelists say, is its rare combination of tireless growth and stable prices. The 1960s and '80s went from boom to bust when the Federal Reserve jacked up interest rates to keep prices from getting out of hand. But these days, inflation is barely on the radar screen, even though the unemployment rate has fallen to 4.9%, a level not seen since Richard Nixon was President. That astonishes Princeton economist Alan Blinder, a former Fed vice chairman. If he had bet on such results four years ago, Blinder notes...
...despite the efforts of the sports information office and the relentless (and often tireless) staffs of campus media. Harvard still has major problems attracting reporters to cover these athletic events...