Word: arduous
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...another well-played contest against one of the 10 nationally ranked teams on Harvard's arduous 14-game schedule, the Crimson remained in the game until the final whistle, when a last second shot failed to tie a thrilling game...
...principal attorney, Dan Burt, is trying to convince the jury that the only public deception was by CBS, not by Westmoreland and the high command in Saigon. Last Tuesday, Westmoreland rested his case in his $120 million libel suit against the network. CBS Lawyer David Boies immediately began the arduous process of piecing the documentary back together in an effort to show that it was true, or at the very least that CBS had every reason to believe it was true...
Their exodus begins on foot or by truck from primitive dwellings in the northwestern reaches of Ethiopia. In the past, those who managed to survive the arduous trek across the famine-ravaged land then had to endure, sometimes for years, squalid life in sprawling refugee camps on the Sudanese side of the border. They are called Falashas in Ethiopia, which in the Amharic language means "strangers" or "ones without a place." But they have always had a spiritual home: Israel. Although these Ethiopians are black, they are also Jews, and they long for the Promised Land. The Israeli government...
...simply, it's exhilarating to witness a government engaged in the arduous process of actually looking at each and every expenditure of the taxpayers' money. Hopefully every sector of the federal budget will feel pressure to save, including defense. The days are over when Congress can treat the American economy like a bottomless pit of resources from which to fund every program imagination can dream up. Ronald Reagan deserves a great deal of credit for putting back into the political agenda the notion that government should be responsive to the electorate, and that the federal budget cannot inevitably acquire...
...question about it, less than two days after undergoing two arduous operations, Bill Schroeder, a retired Government quality-control inspector from Jasper, Ind., was as sharp as a tack and feeling frisky...