Word: arduously
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...latest trade data show that sustaining China's economic boom over the next year will prove arduous if not impossible. Last month China's exports, a major driver of the world's fourth-largest economy, fell by 2.2% compared with November, 2006. The result marked the country's first decline in exports in seven years and was a sharp reversal of the double-digit growth rates manufacturers have typically posted in recent years. The drop was "a shock figure," says Ben Simpfendorfer, the Hong Kong-based chief China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "I had expected exports...
...have also employed surcharges for dining hall rental and sometimes clean-up. Since student groups and House Committees (HoCos) are the driving force behind much on-campus social life, something needs to be done jointly by University Hall and the Houses to offset rising costs and make parties less arduous. The College’s policies are pushing the Harvard social scene to the periphery. Not only is this push an inevitable outcome of difficult party policies, but the administration actually encourages partying in areas that are difficult to monitor. When asked in an e-mail to explain where students...
...recount, which will cost taxpayers roughly $87,000, promises to be arduous. The State Canvassing Board will certify elections results on Tuesday and begin the recount on Wednesday. For the recount, election officials in 110 locations across the state will analyze by hand each of the nearly 3 million ballots to determine voters' intent. (Minnesota uses optical scanners, and many voters haphazardly filled in the intended ovals, didn't do so at all or otherwise improperly marked their ballots.) Thousands of party representatives will literally be peering over the officials' shoulders to challenge any apparent discrepancy. By law, officials must...
...More painful than midterms, more arduous than papers, more awkward than Freshman Week, the various elections and selections of November can be so bad that one wise upperclassman cautioned me last year: “Don’t block with people you know from your activities. By next fall, they may not be your friends...
...TV’s “All My Children”—brought the house down with her believable, bubbly blondeness and uncanny similarity to the original Elle, Reese Witherspoon. Filling those knee-high patent pink leather tie-up boots is no doubt a demanding job. Arduous fans of the 2001 film will find her very obvious efforts to replicate every last one of Witherspoon’s somewhat inimitable facial expressions (largely dependent on the famous chiseled chin and popped rosy cheeks) charming and quite startlingly successful. And while Gulsvig brings nothing new to the table...