Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday, Secretary of State James A. Baker III said, "We know the path to Cambodian internal reconciliation is likely to be long and arduous. But today we take the first steps...
...choicers enshrining trimesters in the Constitution, pro-lifers using an ostensible concern for the mother's health to restrict the mother's freedom of choice. Now we can start being honest again. And with the Supreme Court out of the picture, we can have the arduous but exhilarating democratic experience of deciding an important issue for ourselves...
Both the English and Comparative Literature Departments had to ratify Johnson's appointment, but she did not have to go through the arduous tenure process which precedes most lifetime appointments because she is already a senior member of Harvard's faculty...
More seriously, this shortcut society is changing the way the family functions. Nowhere is the course of the rat race more arduous, for example, than around the kitchen table. Hallmark, that unerring almanac of American mores, now markets greeting cards for parents to tuck under the Cheerios in the morning ("Have a super day at school," chirps one card) or under the pillow at night ("I wish I were there to tuck you in"). Even parents who like their jobs and love their kids find that the pressure to do justice to both becomes almost unbearable. "As a society," warns...
...million a day, Eastern was forced to file for protection under the Chapter 11 provisions of the Federal Bankruptcy Code. Lorenzo used the same tactic 5 1/2 years ago to break the unions and reorganize Continental, but this time, under revised bankruptcy laws, he will find the process more arduous...