Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those seeking an M.D. these days, the race begins early, the course is arduous, and the prize, once achieved, may hardly seem worth the effort. Medical students grumble about the unceasing pressures, the torrents of material, the lack of time to think, much less relax. And they are not the only ones complaining. Patients gripe that the products of this regimen, the current crop of doctors, have no compassion, run their practices like assembly lines and are more fascinated by tests and procedures than by the human beings they treat. Medical school deans and faculty members, meanwhile, worry about turning...
Trop's climb back was arduous. He had sold off his art collection and mortgaged his house to pay for his habit. He went through a series of treatment clinics and rebuilt his marriage and career. Even though he has not had cocaine in nearly three years, he is on guard...
...Those qualities, together with his obviously urgent need, convinced the university selection committee that Clark should be the world's first human to receive a permanent artificial heart. "He was a man worth waiting for," said Committee Member Peg Miller. Those same traits enabled Clark to endure the arduous operation on Dec. 1 and to struggle for 112 days through the perilous and uncharted territory of life with a plastic heart...
...light moments. Asked by professor of Byzantine History Iher Sevoako about what sorts of jobs Harvard could offer non-registrants, Rosovsky noted a variety and then added, "When I say there are lots of jobs, most of them are not drinking tea in the Ukranian Institute--however arduous it may be," eliciting laughter from the faculty...
...feet underground in rock formations stable enough to keep the deadly waste safe and dry for at least 10,000 years. The first site will be limited to a 77,000-ton capacity. The new law requires a procedure for site selection that is deliberately arduous, involving numerous reviews, full-scale tests, public hearings, environmental assessments and consultation with state and local officials. Then the President must recommend his final site choices to Congress-the first by 1987, the second...