Word: relentlessness
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With the exception of the common mosquito (Culex vulgarly), no warm-weather animal is as relentless as the Late-Summer Athlete (Hospes strenuous). As the calendar winds down to Labor Day, he (or she) coaxes colleagues away from a leisurely meal, hauls them up from blankets in the sun and hammocks in the shade-all in the name of Sport. For the victim, no pest coil or 90-day collar will serve as repellent. No, the only proven method of defense is Summer Gamesmanship...
...relentless work ethic of the Japanese is an awesome force to contemplate-even in Japan. The Tokyo government, fearing that frequent complaints from foreign competitors whom the Japanese outhustle might help stir demands for another revaluation of the yen, is now trying to persuade the nation's employees to work fewer hours and take more holidays. The Labor Ministry and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry have extended the campaign to bosses by fining supervisors who insist on working holidays and their normal days off. The fines range from $3.25 to $6.50 for each violation-a much larger...
...then decided, "What I'm really after is money." His bench mate, Robert Sandberg, 19, a dropout from the City University of New York, agrees: "As a technician, you can still get rich." Katharine Gibbs, which graduates 2,000 secretaries a year from five East Coast sites, requires relentless drill in typing, shorthand and other office skills ("It's the most brutal school in the world," says one recent graduate), but it places almost all of its graduates in jobs...
...telephone company employee, Taylor was raised in Rahway, N.J., and traces a good deal of his relentless drive to his days in the local high school. "Two of my classmates went to college and ten went to Sing Sing," he says jokingly. Taylor got a scholarship to Brown University, where he took a B.A. in Renaissance history and a master's in U.S. economic history. At one time he planned a teaching career. Instead, at age 25, he went to work as a trainee for The First Boston Corp., an investment banking firm, where he quickly rose...
There is no question that Galella has been relentless. He lurked outside Jackie's apartment building, donned disguises, dated one of her maids, chased her to restaurants, barged in on one of Caroline's tennis lessons, and popped up in front of John Jr. out on a bicycle. But as Jackie and her Secret Service guards became increasingly agile at frustrating him, Galella filed a $1.3 million suit, claiming that they had prevented him from pursuing his livelihood. Jackie countersued, asking that he be ordered to stay away. Both sides provided more than 4,700 pages of often...