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...background is most impressive, intimidatingly so, and my resume reiterates said impressiveness.While at Harvard, I have immersed myself in the noble pursuits of classroom and academia by large. Outside the classroom, I have proven myself to be a feral participant in the arduous yet glorifying game of life...
Despite the many award-winning academic books to his name, the Hamlet in Purgatory author admits that writing can still be an arduous experience...
Murthy and six friends founded Infosys in 1981 with $250 in start-up capital. The company's early years were arduous. In the 1980s, Murthy recalls, it took a year to get a telephone line, and a dozen trips to New Delhi to get permission to import a single computer. But the firm quickly established a reputation as a reliable partner for American and European businesses looking to contract out software-programming work. That first-mover advantage has paid off. Infosys had $1.06 billion in revenues last year and expects that figure to rise as much as 40% this year...
...older Americans, moving can be even more arduous than for others. "Preparing for a senior move is a major organizational challenge," says Novack. "There may be 40 years of belongings to sort through. It's not uncommon to have items going to your parents' new home, to an adult son in Maine, a daughter in Illinois, a niece in Texas, the church bazaar, the Salvation Army and the town dump...
...wake of Sept. 11, the process of applying for and securing a student visa has become even more arduous than before. The government bars citizens of countries with high immigration rates—like China—from entering the United States unless they can prove that they have legitimate plans to return to their homeland after finishing their education...