Word: arduous
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Union organizers also criticize sections of the book that lists strikes at universities, tell stories of arduous grievance procedures. and describe contract provisions that AFSCME has settled at other universities, but that would not appeal to Harvard employees...
Strobel's unauthorized action, which earned him a slap on the wrist from the EPA and Montana State, as well as the disapproval of most U.S. scientists, was not in itself dangerous -- federal officials and researchers alike agree on that. But by sidestepping the arduous regulatory process, Strobel fanned the fears of those who think genetically altered bugs might behave unpredictably in the wild, setting off an ecological catastrophe or disrupting local ecosystems. Most scientists consider the public's fears exaggerated, but they nonetheless acknowledge the need for caution. Says David Drahos, a senior research group leader at Monsanto...
...hard-won agreement, worked out over 16 months of arduous negotiations and an intense last-minute push to meet an Oct. 4 deadline imposed by Washington, aims at creating nothing less than the world's largest open market. If the tentative accord wins the approval of the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament, all tariffs and many other restrictions that impede the flow of goods and services between the countries will vanish by 1999. President Reagan called the agreement an "important model for other nations seeking to improve their trading relationships." To Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, it was simply...
...upon his arrival in Miami on Sept. 10. Rome Bureau Chief Sam Allis, who will have traveled 18,000 miles with the Pope in twelve days, is groggy and impressed. "I spent 14 months on the road in the 1984 presidential campaign. The Pope's schedule is even more arduous than a presidential candidate's." Says Photographer Dirck Halstead: "For me, this tour has been the most exhausting since Richard Nixon first went to China...
Specter, whose decision on Bork might influence other senators who have not sat through the arduous give-and-take of this week's hearings, expressed concern over Bork's shifting views...