Word: arduous
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It was Congress's holiday for Memorial Day 2000, and majority whip Tom DeLay's staff thought the boss and two top aides deserved a respite from the arduous hours they had been putting in doing the people's business. They wanted to make sure DeLay's little delegation had the finest of everything on its weeklong trip to Britain--from lodgings at the Four Seasons Hotel in London to dinners at the poshest restaurants with the most interesting people, right down to the best tickets for The Lion King--at the time, one of the hottest shows playing...
...exam is not unlike a marathon or a soccer tournament, says David Katz, a nutrition expert at Yale and the author of The Way to Eat (Sourcebooks; 352 pages). "Essentially, this is an arduous exertion," he says. "It just happens to be cognitive rather than physical. Your brain runs on the fuel you ingest, same as the rest of your body." Katz too is a big fan of the healthful breakfast and snacks of fresh fruits and vegetables, nonfat yogurt and energy bars made from fruits, nuts and seeds...
...momentum before a Dutch referendum in June that's expected to be close. If the constitution - which establishes voting rights and procedures among nations, and creates an E.U. president and foreign minister - is rejected in a founding E.U. member like France, the document would be dead, or require an arduous renegotiation process. "We've always thought the result will be close, but this will force the campaign to begin in earnest," says an adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, president of the governing Union for a Popular Movement, which favors the constitution. "The no side has gained by being negative; so will...
Still, the long stretches of ambient blips and beeps are an exasperating bump in the road. Even if Bixler and Rodriguez maintain the need to provide transitions between segments, do they really have to be so arduous? The duo has ambition seeping out of their pores; restraining their indulgences would do them much good...
With such a massive undertaking, constituting the work of so many individuals, it’s no surprise that the show’s producers speak of the arduous task of filling Sanders with a tinge of desperation...