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Chemistry 20, "Organic Chemistry," was sixth on the list. But with workload and difficulty ratings of 4.3, and competitiveness of 3.9 on a five point scale, it ranks as one of the more arduous courses at the College...
Under certain circumstances, parents can sponsor aliens for working papers through an arduous process that requires filing forms with the Department of Labor and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Employers then must pay Social Security and other taxes under a special IRS number during the 10 or more years that it can take for the government to approve the application...
...sides also disagreed on how well thenegotiation process worked. Rudenstine said in astatement today that he thought "the negotiationprocess, while arduous at times, worked well...
President Bush has maintained that he is merely saving Weinberger the trouble of a long and arduous trial. Is Bush assuming that Weinberger is guilty? He seems to feel that, with or without a trial, the result will be the same--a presidential pardon. However, Bush cannot make this argument because a trial would have run well into Bill Clinton's presidency. Clinton, a Democrat, would be less sympathetic to Weinberger's problems...
...that understates and oversimplifies the challenge facing him and his people. Russia is actually in the throes of three transformations at once: from totalitarianism to democracy, from a command economy to a free market, and from a multinational empire to a nation-state. Any one of these would be arduous enough all by itself. Undertaking three revolutions simultaneously with so little warning and preparation has overloaded the circuits...