Word: arduous
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...publisher Rotner, despite his talk of the virtues of venting rage, seems to agree, "I felt I was tired of spending too much time with all of us debating a decision," he says. He found that decision-making at the paper was becoming "very arduous, very complicated, and very tiring...
...attractive financial Easter eggs that were packed into a bulging basket of tax goodies last week and delivered to the White House by members of Congress just before they left on a holiday recess. The most sweeping tax cut in U.S. history was worked out during 2% days of arduous argument by a conference committee, which struck an equitable compromise between House and Senate versions of the bill. The conferees settled on a gross tax reduction of $24.8 billion - about $8.8 billion more than President Ford had sought but $8.3 billion less than the Senate had approved...
...Coop amendment ballot which members have recently received should be understood for what it is: a blatant attempt on the part of certain Law and Business School professors, incumbent Coop officers, to perpetuate their tenure. Not content with making the nominating procedure for non-student directors so arduous that of the several submitted petitions only one has ever been accepted, they now proceed to the ultimate solution: abandoning free elections altogether. Nothing could be more contrary to the spirit of cooperative enterprise than to consign the representation of 35,000 non-student members to a self-perpetuating group...
When Moscow repudiated its trade agreements with Washington last week, three years of delicate and arduous negotiations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were aborted. Was something else aborted as well-namely the whole carefully crafted structure of detente between Washington and Moscow...
...mood: "None of us would have given up the chance to take part in history the way we did." Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who wrote this week's Watergate article, has turned out 21 cover stories on the conspiracy. Said he: "This story has been both arduous and satisfying for a journalist. But it yields no joy. High officials who used lawless means to manipulate the public they were supposed to serve have been stopped. But it was too close a call...