Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initial talks dealt only with the ground rules for a possible negotiation, they were cheered by picketing workers as a significant gesture of recognition. Meanwhile, in a letter to national church authorities, Poland's own Pope John Paul II expressed his concern over what he called his country's "arduous struggle for daily bread and social justice." Poland's Communist government was thus confronted with its most serious threat since the food-price riots that toppled Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka...
Last week's action culminated a long and arduous political fight. Senator Edward Kennedy first began holding hearings almost three years ago about the possibility of freeing the industry from some ICC rules, and President Carter sent his bill to Congress on June 21, 1979. In an unusual display of accord, the two rivals both lobbied hard for the measure. But the Teamsters union and the American Trucking Associations fought it. The A.T.A. spent more than $1 million on a public relations campaign to convince legislators that deregulation would mean increased prices, wasted gasoline and decreased service to small...
These days it is still an arduous one, but less "miraculous...
...response to local adulation. The first papal canonization was performed in A.D. 993. Even today the road to beatification and eventual sainthood is likely to have begun with some act of piety or miracle believed in by local people. Since the late 16th century, canonization has evolved into an arduous process that in some ways resembles a legal proceeding more than a spiritual exercise...
...Woody Allen she is "probably the most beautiful woman the world has yet seen." He might have added that Mariel Hemingway, 18, his Manhattan costar, is also a topflight athlete. Even before she began an arduous nine months of training for the part of an Olympics-bound track star in Personal Best, Heming way would spend four to five hours a day at her home in Ketchum, Idaho, swimming, skiing, jogging, riding horses, climbing mountains or tumbling on the family trampoline. To play a pentathlon competitor, she stretched her repertory to include the shot put, high jump, long jump...