Word: arduous
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Free speech, as we all know, is anything but free. Universities must be resolved to punish those who stifle the rights of others. The messy, arduous task of sorting out who did what to whom and what penalties are to be meted out is not an enviable one. But the sweat of the administrators in control is just one of the tithes that have to be paid to prevent the foreclosure of the First Amendment by anyone with small, empty heads and large, empty sacks...
...Principles foresees a gradual, step-by-step Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Assad seeks a total Israeli pullout from the Golan in return for something he calls "full peace" but has never spelled out. Getting Assad's agreement to a peace treaty will doubtless take arduous negotiations and a much more active U.S. mediating role, but few diplomats think he will hold out long...
...into national symbols. Conservatives hailed the judge's ruling as a vindication of crusades against legitimizing homosexuality. Liberals denounced it as prejudice masquerading as jurisprudence. The case intensified heated questions resulting from the public emergence of homosexuals in American society: Are they just another oppressed minority, making the same arduous climb that faced so many other groups? Or are they morally and socially different? Is there -- and should there be -- a way to give homosexuals legal equality without compelling heterosexuals to endorse the equality of their life-style...
Even six months later, the allegations of harassment continue. Last week, guard Pierre R. Voss was taken to the hospital after falling on a flight of stairs during his shift. Voss, who had just returned to work after a back injury, says he was wrongly assigned to an extremely arduous shift. Dowling denies the charge, saying the shift is no more difficult than any other...
...climbing alone. No one knows what went wrong, at what height, on a route that should have been relatively easy for him. It was a private death, leaving too few scraps to make a puzzle. Cearley's fall seems easier to understand. He and two companions had made the arduous climb to the 20,320-ft. summit and back down to 18,500 ft. As they stopped to rest and rope up, Cearley, who was not using his ice ax, lost his balance and slid away...