Word: arduous
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These institutions, Boston University among them, prefer to contract directly with a lobbying firm in Washington, hoping to secure funding for specific endeavors and research projects. In this way, some university administrators say, these schools can approach representatives and senators directly, avoiding the competition that usually accompanies the arduous grant proposal process...
...admissions proceses is a major obstacle to all college aspirants, arduous and nerve-wracking at the best of times, and calamitous at others. Because the process is naturally geared towards people who have been through the American educational system, those who have not done so are necessarily at a disadvantage...
Lord said that Chinese women have an arduous life which usually includes a full-time job that is "rarely of their own choosing" and that rarely has any future. She added that because of their experience, Chinese women "would not rally behind feminist slogans" and "would choose to stay home" from work if their families did not need "two paychecks...
...Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality's (AALARM) road to recongition was even more arduous than most. First, there was a proctor who tore down our posters and a senior advisor who threatened us with the dreaded Ad Board...
...unified Germany is the least justified. After 45 years of hyper-sensitivity to their past, German citizens and German public life are exceedingly sensitive to suggestions of racism and militarism. Fully a quarter of German youth refuse conscription into the military, opting instead for more lengthy and arduous conscientious-objector duty...