Word: tirelessness
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Should Ford instead pursue a Northern strategy? In that case he would consider the sturdy but uncolorful Elliot Richardson, Secretary of Commerce, or Maryland Senator Mac Mathias, or Ed Brooke, black Senator from Massachusetts, or even the tireless warrior, Nelson Rockefeller...
...staff were ever sick either -they didn't dare be. Recalls one: "Boyd wouldn't recognize anything short of an amputation." Equally tireless away from work, Boyd over the years has run a program in the Catskills for neighboring kids as well as his own five children and seven grandchildren. He also skis, bicycles and teaches handicraft and square dancing...
...strike deadline, Firestone increased its wage offer by a dime, to a $1.15 hourly raise over three years, and offered a COLA that would be activated if the Consumer Price Index rose more than seven percentage points in any one year. Peter Bommarito, 60, the U.R.W.'s tireless, white-moustached president, called the offer "insulting...
...around former President Richard Nixon, probably none was more hated than Chuck Colson, top hatchet man and tireless inventor of dirty tricks. There was a sense of national satisfaction when he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and served seven months in jail. Now, in a book to be published in mid-February, Colson, 44, tells how, in embracing evangelical Christianity, he learned the error of his ways-and of his fallen chiefs. Born Again (Chosen Books, a religious publisher) is an uncomplaining and contrite testament to the belief, renewed each generation, that power corrupts...
Died. John Martin Murtagh, 64, New York State Supreme Court Justice who was preparing his ruling on whether the state's special prosecutor, Maurice Nadjari, had the authority to investigate the New York Democratic Party chairman Patrick Cunningham; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A tireless, methodical, thorough worker, Democrat Murtagh presided over Republican Nadjari's corruption cases for three years and repeatedly clashed with the prosecutor, whose slashing, unorthodox tactics caused Murtagh to throw out a number of pre-jury indictments...