Word: arduousness
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When IBM announced its quarterly results last Monday, the news seemed like the last, grateful chapter of some Joseph Conrad epic. IBM had returned from its arduous journey to the land of lesser companies. It had produced a solidly black summer. Profits, the company said, rose ahead of expectations; hot new IBM computers such as the ThinkPad 560 were rocketing off the shelves for the first time in decades; and the company's services business, which helps firms get up to the warp speed of the infobahn, had booked a mind-blowing $11 billion in business in the first nine...
...Afro-American Studies would have come to naught. The rebuilding of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard has been a truly collaborative project, involving both the faculty and students in Afro-American Studies and the unfailing support of the administration. Working with these individuals has made the arduous task of building a valid and respectable academic program a genuine pleasure over the past five years...
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...signs that virtue is growing ever more chic: actor Charlie Sheen, who ran up a $50,000 tab with the Heidi Fleiss escort service, has declared himself a born-again Christian. ("There's such a thing as having too much fun," he concluded after years of arduous research.) Geraldo Rivera, who pioneered the craft of filing video dispatches from the primordial ooze, now bemoans the filth of daytime TV and vows to clean up his act. ("I'm sick of the garbage that is on.") A p.r. executive whose past clients include Michael Jackson is leading a campaign to build...