Word: arduous
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...bear is a pathetic creature whose strength and dignity are ridiculed by its overriding need to perform. Explains the author: "They have become good at learning tricks to amuse people, but they have been reduced to a shadow show, like so many people who have been taught the most arduous skills that most of us find silly-like writing, reading and even wrestling...
...your way out of problems in different areas I don't believe to be sound and the Americans have found it that way." Britons may now be finding out something else that the U.S. has already discovered: the road to racial harmony is long and arduous...
...opposing factions also agree that the grievance process, which began with Skocpol's filing of charges last November, was long, arduous, and wearisome. Maybe so, but it was also beneficial, for it brought to the community's attention several important issues that transcend the Skocpol case alone...
HARVARD'S DIVESTITURE of $50 million in Citicorp stock came after a long and arduous battle. For those who remember, the issue was South Africa and $350 million worth of Harvard investments in corporations whose South African operations strengthened minority rule in the apartheid state. In 1978, 4,000 students physically demanded divestiture, but Daniel Steiner, general counsel to the University, and the Corporation out-papered and out-waited most of the students. Now, finally, they made a move. Citicorp was loaning funds directly to the South African government, and that is where the Harvard Corporation appears to have drawn...
...Iowa caucuses that rocketed Bush to national renown in January. Much as Bush may have to stay under wraps, the vice presidency will give him many more chances to repay such past favors, rebuild the network of supporters he established during two years of arduous campaigning for the 1980 nominations, and otherwise prepare for a renewed White House...