Word: unyieldingness
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And so it was done. One of the world's greatest designers took one of the world's fashion press by her unyielding arm and steered her through his fall collection, explaining. Pity the poor woman. She looked as if she had just been concussed by a cinder...
The President himself led the charge. In a concentrated campaign lasting more than a month, he sought to justify his proposed increase of 10.7% in military spending for fiscal 1984. Republicans in the Senate had agreed to delay considering the budget while he pressed his case on TV, on the...
The paragon of this camp is Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security policy. He has had more impact on the substance of U.S. policy in INF and START than any other official in the U.S. Government, an achievement that is all the more remarkable since he holds...
The unyielding interest charges include those on loans used to buy cars, improve homes and make credit-card purchases. All such debt totaled a record $342 billion in January. Commercial banks, which made nearly 45% of those loans, were by far the largest single lender. The failure of bank rates...
Safire has two seemingly all-but-blind loyalties. One is to Israel, for which he admits to being an unyielding apologist, though he called for the resignation of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon within days of the September 1982 massacre of Palestinians in Israeli-supervised camps in Beirut. The other devotion...