Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speak cautiously in public, and especially to the press, on this issue. Weinberger's tendency to blurt out locker-room opinions in the guise of policy was one that I prayed he might overcome. If God heard, He did not answer in any way understandable to me. The arduous duty of construing the meaning of Cap Weinberger's public sayings was a steady drain on time and patience...
...landslide." Frank Mankiewicz suggests that Hart could turn the age-change issue into a joke simply by beginning a speech with a statement of fact and then, after pausing a beat, adding, "I'm as certain of that as I am of my own age." Hart's arduous climb from restless small-town boy to presidential contender has sharpened and toughened him. The campaign will test whether his steely cool is well tempered, or too brittle. -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Hays Gorey/Washington and Jack E. White with Hart
...past, that journey was arduous and often tragic for Soviet exiles, particularly for those poets and writers who fled their country after the 1917 Revolution. A few, like Vladimir Nabokov, joined the mainstream of modern literature and enriched it. A handful returned in desperation to the Soviet Union, only to perish hi Stalin's camps, like the eminent critic Dmitri Mirsky, or by suicide, as in the case of the great idiosyncratic poet Marina Tsvetayeva. Many remained stranded on alien shores where their writing disappeared with scarcely a trace...
Even if the two sides could meet halfway on terms for a new round of talks, and even if the Administration did embrace the State Department's recommended shift, the talks would be arduous. The State Department's framework approach, with its ceilings on missile warheads, would still cut by about half the number of warheads the Soviets would be allowed to have a decade from now. The Soviets are certain to resist such a proposal, even in exchange for significant U.S. concessions...
...Despite investments in research and development that have exceeded $2 billion, only a handful of marketable products have emerged from the laboratory. But 1984 may be the year when biotechnology begins to live up to its vaunted potential. A number of new products are working their way through the arduous testing process. Some of the most promising substances that researchers hope will soon reach the market: a human growth hormone that combats dwarfism, a protein that may stop heart attacks in progress, substances that diagnose sexually transmitted diseases like herpes, drugs for treating AIDS, and a form of interferon that...