Word: arduous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Granted, perestroika is crucially different in that it goes hand in hand with profound political change. Maybe the plane's engines can really be repaired in mid-flight, as the unreassuring metaphor has it. But it will be an arduous process, requiring much more than injections of cash...
...things considered, my campus job is pretty good. It isn't too arduous, the hours are flexible and the pay is good. But I just can't get over the intellectual guilt from throwing out printed material. This is not what I expected from a college education...
After a campaign that City Council incumbents have called one of the most arduous of their career, voters and campaigners alike relaxed a little yesterday to wait for the polls to close...
Wolf said the unusually high number of candidates vying for the nine council positions--28 will appear on today's ballot--made the campaign a particularly arduous...
...leader's advice to the Polish Communist Party chief last Tuesday apparently came down to this: Go with the flow. Within hours the Communists' belligerent demands for a greater role in Warsaw's as yet unformed government were replaced by conciliatory calls for "partner-like cooperation" with Solidarity. The arduous and uncharted process of piecing together the East bloc's first non-Communist government was back on track...