Word: arduously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth, storm chasing is arduous work that generally entails more common sense than courage and more physical discomfort than danger. Professional chasers often drive 15 hours a day for days at a time, subsisting on junk food and virtually no sleep. "We eat whatever Texaco, Conoco and Citgo are willing to serve up," laughs University of Oklahoma meteorologist Joshua Wurman. Nor do the hazards of the job always come from nature. Last year Wurman stopped during a chase to help extract a car from a ditch. "While I was pushing, the driver gunned his engine and I was covered...
...biomedical sciences are here in Boston, but computer science is over in Cambridge," Weed says. "The need to travel between two campuses, an arduous task for even sighted individuals, makes learning the basic scientific programming language emacs-LISP impossible...
...will other gratified owners who have joined the Maloneys in the vanguard of a revolution that is turning the once arduous task of buying or leasing a vehicle into a relative breeze. Browsing the Internet is just one of the new ways of kicking the tires that are giving consumers more bargaining power in a business famous for high-pressure salesmanship. Reason? Online shoppers can get information that dealers once kept to themselves--for instance, what the dealer paid for that beauty he wants to sell to you. Consumers are also riding the buying clout of warehouse clubs like...
While some final clubs, like the Owl and the Spee, are known for their degrading punch activities, others have less arduous initiations...
...struggle for an ethnic studies program at Harvard will be an arduous one, visiting ethnic studies scholars said at a conference held Saturday in Harvard Hall...