Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet began with the arduous 10,000 meter run, and while freshman Bruce Weber knocked 20 seconds off his previous best time he couldn't make the top five finishers. Classmate Kim Stephens, representing Harvard's best hope for a first in the 400 meter hurdles, pulled a hamstring in Tuesday's practice and, after his four-medal performance last weekend in the GBCs, had to watch lamely from the sidelines...
...census. Says Ben Wattenberg, of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank: "At some point in this whole statistical system, somebody has got to do a count. Nothing else works unless you have a base number that you can actually, physically verify." The long and arduous effort to obtain this base number begins this week...
Three teams of researchers, including one from Grenoble university and another representing a Trotskyite publisher interested in publishing a set of the leader's collected works began the arduous task of evaluating the entire collection...