Despite endless attempts at reform, French health costs have soared relentlessly, producing a deficit of FFr40 billion ($8 billion) in 1995 and hampering efforts to slash the total public deficit to enable France to meet the criteria for joining Europe's single currency.Alain Juppé, the prime minister, badly needs this reform, part of his social-welfare overhaul, to work.
But this very abrasiveness was essential to Apple's success it kept the company passenger-free and relentlessly focused on producing the next big thing.
Even after the Bush administration grudgingly joined Europe, Russia and China in offering a deal (economic and political inducements if Iran stopped producing nuclear fuel, sanctions if it did not), Tehran relentlessly advanced its ability to produce nuclear fuel.
The editor relentlessly presses the young writers to produce unique articles on a crazy-fast deadline.
In order for anyone to have a chance of standing out, he must either produce high-quality content relentlessly, or have some tricks up his sleeve that may give him advantage.
Trying to produce it, and keep ahead of relentlessly more complicated games, means constantly hunting for new gizmos.
They intend to press Mr. Perry on foreign policy, demand that he produce a national jobs plan and relentlessly pursue the case that Mr. Perry is out of step with his party on how to address illegal immigration.
In the summer of 1966, Newsday columnist Mike McGrady threw down the gauntlet to a trusted coterie of fellow journalists: Produce a novel so poorly written and relentlessly focused on sex that it would fly off bookstore shelves.
That is why we are focused relentlessly on two things: producing truly distinctive quality journalism; and ensuring this journalism is seen by the largest possible audience.
The relentlessly optimistic Bush administration, which released its latest budget projections this week, had to struggle mightily to produce even a tiny nub of a surplus -- $1 billion this year outside of Social Security, based on overoptimistic forecasts and convenient omissions.
