Word: arduous
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...black middle class." Yet too much should not be expected too soon. Because of its origins in slavery, no other ethnic group has started so far behind in America with so many historical liabilities. For blacks the way up is all the steeper, the climb the more arduous. What is encouraging is that they seem to be making a successful ascent. Thomas Pettigrew, a social psychologist at Harvard, believes that the middle class is gaining the "know-how to pass on from generation to generation." As it does, an increasing number of blacks will meet with whites on equal terms...
Leading the Portuguese out of their political indifference is an arduous and frustrating task. COPA has made a beginning, as have regional conferences such as the Congress of the Portuguese in America held at Harvard last year under COPA's sponsorship...
...early, heady belief of Common Market Founder Jean Monnet that economic integration would lead to political unity. That evaluation no longer seems inevitable or even necessarily desirable to most European leaders. They are not in the mood for the arduous tasks of adopting a common currency, formulating joint defense and foreign policies, or agreeing on a multilateral energy program. There is no longer a convergence of national interests among West European nations. As a top Belgian Foreign Ministry official noted last week, "The Germans no longer need Europe, not even economically for its large markets. The French are convinced that...
...Meditation suggests tranquillity not torture, but sitting motionless for even a few minutes in an approximation of the lotus position left the author's stiff Western legs cramped and shaking. The younger Japanese monks did not have a much better time of it. The holiest and most arduous week of the year-Roha-tsu-came in December. The period of sleep was reduced to two hours, from midnight to 2 a.m. The monks meditated for 15 hours a day. Anyone who seemed inattentive was beaten with a long piece of board. Van de Wetering lasted out the ordeal, surprising...
...peace agreement which officially ended over a decade of American war in Vietnam. The agreement called for a ceasefire, the withdrawal of American troops and the return of all prisoners of war. The agreement created two special commissions which were to monitor the ceasefire and begin the long, arduous work toward national reconciliation. In a television address, President Nixon pledged to respect the agreement and to assist in the reconstruction of the entire area after the fighting stopped...