He moves effortlessly from one scene to another in this tumultuous year from Mrs Thatcher's election victory to Khomeini's relentless extension of his power, from John Paul's visit to his homeland to Deng's emergence as the most powerful politician in China after the Communist Party's third plenum.
So they needed to be given special consideration, first in the form of federal contracts in construction, then in the form of lower standards in university admissions.The Economist supported affirmative action for blacks then; it was less happy about its relentless extension to other groups, such as Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders and, with the least justification of all, to women.
Mr. Tourondel declined to comment, but some colleagues said they thought Mr. Tourondel had begun to think that his haute reputation was being diminished by relentless brand extensions.
But since 1999, amid Procter & Gamble's relentless campaign of brand extension, sales of all Olay products in the United States have surpassed those for the Dove line.
Vocabulary: obsession, culprit, foil, balletic, precision, hurtled, industrial, punctuality, efficiency, disaster, relentless, registered, secretive, delays, typhoons, erected, mishaps, excessive, conductors, betray, reprimanded, equivalent, negligence, recovered, abnormally, derailed, regulations Extension Activities: 1.
Vocabulary: relentless, complex, cartilage, pedestrian, shingle, surrealistic, psychological, geologically, rhyolites, obsidian, oxides, apex, predators, subordinate, paleontology, excrement, coprolite, attributed, impacted, bettor, metaphorical, caveat, singularly, uncommunicative Extension Activities: 1.
In "Bklyn Extension, Jason Paradis draws analogies between natural forces and manufactured systems, equating the flow of commuters through a subway with a river's relentless current.
They were relentless, unemotional.
"Cloying, treacherous, relentless quicksand!
