Word: arduously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Compaq or HP seems to be under any illusion about the arduous tasks ahead--blending their cultures, cutting costs ruthlessly (the target is $2.5 billion by 2004) and cracking the services market. Compaq founder Canion, for one, is cautiously optimistic. "These are strong companies being judged in a tough time," he says. At the very least, his baby's new mom has managed to defer judgment for a little while longer...
...Institutes of Health that arrived at the 60 figure, conducting a worldwide survey of labs to determine which ones had viable cell lines already in inventory. As recently as last month, the NIH put the figure at just 30, but after what a senior Administration official described as an "arduous process" of searching, the number doubled...
...beyond them? We wake up every few months and find ourselves in a weird new world. Do the educated and successful and privileged classes of the information-saturated post-industrial West now consider the reading of books to be something optional and quaint, like candles at dinner - a throwback, arduous and unnecessary, like knowing Latin and Greek (once indispensable among the educated...
...accept free-lance, unconventional struggles in our politicians' biographies. We are grateful to have any real story at all, so lusterless and lawyerly and venal has the breed become. Jesse Ventura's battles as a wrestler may have been an arduous sham, but at least they had some screwball color, and the goofy, sweaty theatrics of struggle. But of course sham subverts struggle, and gives the audience nothing more nourishing than irony and cheap entertainment...
...Many do make the attempt. But trips through China to neighboring countries, where refugees can seek asylum in a South Korean embassy, are arduous and fraught with danger: most refugees lack papers and don't speak Chinese. In Yanji on a recent night, a group of eight refugees were preparing to make a run for it anyway. In a safe house on the top floor of a concrete apartment building, they huddled on the linoleum floor, pouring over a map of Mongolia while a missionary went over the route they would take, explaining where to make the crossing under...