Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...even bigger advantage, he adds, is speed. Take the arduous night three weeks ago when TIME produced its special election issue, which went to press just ten hours after the last polls closed. Without computer page makeup, the time-consuming chores of cut and paste would "have prevented the inclusion of late-breaking additions to stories. "With this system," says Feeback, "a new part of a story could be fitted into the layout five minutes after it was written and edited...
...true that Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan never entirely engaged during the race. But the long campaign did serve its purpose. In the arduous democratic process-entertainment and enlightenment and blood feud all mixed-the characters of the candidates unfolded. There was, God knows, plenty of time for the voters to make up their minds...
...rated as even the best of the six in town. Its news coverage had lost the crusading spirit of its early days as a "people's daily" fighting Brahmin interests. The editorial page featured wambling, civics-text platitudes. There were advertisements on Page One. Winship's arduous task was made more delicate by family diplomacy: his predecessor was his father, Laurence Winship, who had dominated the paper for 40 years...