Word: arduously
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...Frates pointed out, a long and arduous recruiting process awaits anyone aspiring to get a job in the investment-banking industry. He advised students to pay attention to their appearance in the interviews...
...case, one should beware of answered prayers. Those with hard experience at being famous know that while celebrity can occasionally be delightful, it may become a burden, an arduous and menacing bore. Just how menacing it can be we saw in the middle of that recent night in Paris...
Meanwhile, the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, exhorts his people to persevere in their "arduous march," allowing for no discussion of the possibility that years of Stalinist economic policies may have caused the famine. Yet at the same time, there is acknowledgment that something dramatic must happen. Says relief official Jong Yun Hyong: "We know we can't rely on emergency aid forever." Even to march in place, you need food...
...black achievement. He has been lobbying Newt Gingrich and other G.O.P. leaders to back an antipreference bill in Congress (maybe next year, says Gingrich) and helping groups who are organizing similar initiatives in six other states. But only one of those groups, an effort in Houston, has begun the arduous task of gathering qualifying signatures. To succeed, such groups need big money and plenty of troops; Connerly hopes Clinton's speech will attract both. The larger question, however, is whether Connerly's side can prevail in the national debate as America, which has been rolling back race- and gender-based...
...Globe owes its existence to an American actor blacklisted during the McCarthy era. When Sam Wanamaker arrived in London in 1949, he was shocked to discover that the only acknowledgment of the original Globe was a plaque affixed to the front of a brewery. Wanamaker began a long and arduous campaign to build a modern equivalent. When he had finally squeezed enough cash from corporations and individual benefactors ($20.5 million), Wanamaker and his building team had to struggle to come up with the right design...