Word: tireless
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...Despite Chen's success, one also detects the desperate grasping of a social climber in his tireless rise up the meritocracy. Indeed, he has gone about as far as one can on brains and effort: all the way to the presidency. But to reach the next level, to become a great President, requires vision. And you can't find that in any textbooks. "What Chen lacks is emotional intelligence," says Hu, "he doesn't have that. How can you be a great leader without that kind of emotional center?" Chen says he is working on that, studying up on being...
...coalesce. A good showing in December, and Chen's disappointing first year?especially his mishandling of a pledge to keep Taiwan nuclear-free by canceling and then reinstating a planned power plant?could be forgotten as Chen pushes through his legislative agenda. As mayor of Taipei, he was a tireless promoter of quality of life issues?shutting down sex shops, getting a light-rail urban transit system into operation, installing special bus lanes to unsnarl Taipei's notorious traffic and beautifying the city...
...during the 1976 Soweto uprising against apartheid education. And that was just the opening act of a teenage activist career that saw him leave high school well acquainted with apartheid's prison cells and with the knuckles of its security policemen. He spent the next two decades as a tireless activist in the struggle to end apartheid, and once that struggle was over he turned to making documentary films about the history of gay life in South Africa...
...setting precedents. At 25, she was a member of the Irish Senate and the youngest-ever law professor at Trinity College Dublin. By the time she was 46 she had become Ireland's first female president. She is only the second occupant of the high commissioner post, but her tireless campaigning - she has visited more than 60 countries - and unyielding outspokenness have transformed the office into an international bully pulpit. Her willingness to, as she puts it, "criticize those who are your masters - the member states" has rankled some members of the world body. Israel, for example, bristled when...
Sure, the Cryonics Institute might go out of business, or my brain might be sufficiently scrambled so that no number of tireless FriendlyTinyRobots might put Humpty together again, or any number of technical difficulties might prevent me from being successfully thawed, but so what? I am no deader that I would be otherwise...