Word: remorseless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mimi Sheraton, 53, the New York Times's remorseless food critic, and Frank Prial, 48, who writes about wine for the paper, deduced that Otto's place would most likely be fairly near McPhee's home in Princeton, N.J. They sicced a stringer onto the story, says Prial. "He called politicians in the area, figuring they like to eat, too." Indeed. The gastronomic gumshoe tracked down a Pike County Republican bigwig who confirmed the team's suspicion that the bistro described in The New Yorker was the Red Fox Inn, in Milford, Pa. However, the legendary...
Unfortunately, budget trimming by OMB seems small when weighed against the remorseless growth of federal expenditures that are mandated by law. Such "entitlement programs" as Social Security. Medicare and federal pensions account for nearly two-thirds of the budget, and in HEW they claim 89c of every dollar. Social Security alone costs $104 billion. Unless the growth of benefits is slowed, the whole Social Security system?as well as the budget?will be in deep trouble. Says Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office: "If you're really concerned about the growth in Government, then you have...
...always done before, Gelsey took steps. This time, though, her single-mindedness promised a confrontation with the demiurge of 20th century dance. Balanchine's classes are known for their remorseless speed. Gelsey not only sought the help of outside teachers, she dropped Balanchine's class entirely. What she wanted to learn from others was an approach that was both less punishing and more effective...
...earned a rest. For the past 13 years he has tried to make sense of the days' events-in 2½ minutes, four nights a week. Having reached 65, the network's mandatory sign-off time, he is not entirely unhappy to slow down. "The deadline was remorseless," he says. "You wake up with a clock in your head...
...Hawaii students who five weeks ago let the dolphins, named Kea and Puka, escape into the Pacific from the Kewalo Basin Marine Research Facility of the University of Hawaii. The two men, Steve Sipman, 26, and Ken LeVasseur, 26, argued that the dolphins were "slaves" that were "undergoing remorseless experiments...