Word: arduousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welfare payments from Rhode Island's cities to the state. In Massachusetts, Republican John Volpe, starting his third term, declared that his state's limited 3% sales tax, enacted in 1966 after a vicious battle, should be made permanent, warned that projecting the tax structure will be "arduous, complicated and demanding," and called for a full-scale study of revenue sources. Nelson Rockefeller said he was ready to set up the machinery for New York's referendum-approved lottery, which is expected to yield upwards of $50 million for state education...
...Korean predecessor, he has known all his life that he must serve a military tour of duty, indeed has planned it along with college, marriage and choice of vocation. From the moment he arrives (usually aboard a comfortable troop ship), through his bivouac experience (under conditions less arduous than most Stateside weekend hunting camps), to combat itself (as intense as any in history, but brief), he is supported by the best that his country can offer-even though it is to fight a mean and dirty...
...determined to prove that it takes more than "a little stitchin' " to slow down a Johnson, the President maintained almost as arduous a schedule as if he were back in the White House. About the only difference was his sparing use of the telephone and-initially, at least-of his voice. "I don't have volume," he complained...
...army on the Long March and hit upon an idea: Let's travel to Peking by foot." On Aug. 25, they set out, "holding high the Red-covered quotations of Chairman Mao, and with revolutionary vigor vowed: 'To make revolution, we must take the most arduous road!' " During the first ten days, the rain poured down and their ankles grew swollen. In order to forget the pain, they chanted: "A thousand mountains, 10,000 rivers are nothing," an old Long Marching song. Despite fatigue they found time in four major cities and 17 counties "to help people...
...group will examine the tribe's values, its worries, its ambitions, and its concept of self-identity. "We want to find out what gives them satisfaction living in a harsh landscape doing such arduous tasks," Gardner said...