Word: arduous
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...past, that journey was arduous and often tragic for Soviet exiles, particularly for those poets and writers who fled their country after the 1917 Revolution. A few, like Vladimir Nabokov, joined the mainstream of modern literature and enriched it. A handful returned in desperation to the Soviet Union, only to perish hi Stalin's camps, like the eminent critic Dmitri Mirsky, or by suicide, as in the case of the great idiosyncratic poet Marina Tsvetayeva. Many remained stranded on alien shores where their writing disappeared with scarcely a trace...
Even if the two sides could meet halfway on terms for a new round of talks, and even if the Administration did embrace the State Department's recommended shift, the talks would be arduous. The State Department's framework approach, with its ceilings on missile warheads, would still cut by about half the number of warheads the Soviets would be allowed to have a decade from now. The Soviets are certain to resist such a proposal, even in exchange for significant U.S. concessions...
...Despite investments in research and development that have exceeded $2 billion, only a handful of marketable products have emerged from the laboratory. But 1984 may be the year when biotechnology begins to live up to its vaunted potential. A number of new products are working their way through the arduous testing process. Some of the most promising substances that researchers hope will soon reach the market: a human growth hormone that combats dwarfism, a protein that may stop heart attacks in progress, substances that diagnose sexually transmitted diseases like herpes, drugs for treating AIDS, and a form of interferon that...
Villa Banfi's most arduous wine-making challenge, though, is still to come. Following the lead of other vintners, the company is going to try to make wine on New York's Long Island. It has already planted 15 acres on its Old Brookville estate with Chardonnay grapes, and company officials hope to put in more vines during the next two years. Although isolated vineyards have been cultivated on Long Island for 300 years, no famous wine labels have emerged from the area. Villa Banfi wants to change that by bottling a world-class Nassau bianco...
...that you are behind the times. The old-fashioned box office has, by and large, gone the way of the pinball machine and the flesh-and-blood bank teller: computers have moved in. Today ordering tickets for everything from Broadway shows to a Styx concert often requires nothing more arduous than picking up the phone and reading numbers off a credit card...