Word: relentlessness
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Despite the guarded optimism of researchers, AIDS activists in the U.S. and Europe resent what they refer to as the "hype" surrounding the trial's results, which they think continues to raise questions - unnecessarily - about its significance. But specialists like Frahm say that was bound to happen. Against the relentless silence in the field of AIDS-vaccine research, even the tiniest signal from a lone Thai trial can sound like a fog horn...
...above Chippendale’s skittering ADD drums. “Rain on Lake I’m Swimming In” is a wash of echoed, harmonized bass melody underneath whimsical, indecipherable processed vocals. Both of these tracks show a marked deviation from the duo’s relentless riffage without sacrificing their signature sound...
...compatriot of Harvey Milk's and, later, the conceiver of the most powerful work of American folk art, the AIDS quilt. Last year, Jones found himself in the spotlight again after the film Milk reminded the nation of what his close friend Harvey had died for. With relentless encouragement from David Mixner - a longtime gay activist and occasional friend of Bill Clinton's - Jones decided to pay attention to all the e-mails he was receiving from 20-something gays who were both angry about Prop 8 and inspired by Milk...
...dared be the bearer of bad news. The purpose of work, at least in white collar settings, was to flatter and reassure the boss, who had in turn probably read enough of the business self-help literature to believe that his job was to motivate others with his own relentless and radiant optimism. (Read "A Primer for Pessimists...
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of the forthcoming Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company...