Word: arduousness
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Other nations continued to seek protection from possible nuclear fallout. After arduous debate, the twelve member nations of the European Community agreed to ban all meat and farm products from East European countries affected by the fallout from Chernobyl. The boycott will remain in effect at least through May. The move infuriated exporters such as Yugoslavia and Poland, which rely on hard currency raised from agricultural sales to pay off foreign debts. Officials in Warsaw were especially angered by a U.S. plan to ship powdered milk for distribution in Poland through nongovernment agencies. Their bitter retort: an offer to send...
...both adjusting to married life, Diana has the added % difficulty of getting used to living in the crystal palace of royal life. In addition to the loss of privacy, the duties--opening factories, pressing thousands of hands, walking about dreary industrial towns--can be as tedious as they are arduous. The ITV interviewer, Sir Alastair Burnet, asked Diana whether she had anticipated that she would not even be able to walk down a street without kicking up a fuss. Her forthright answer: "No. I didn...
...make the graduate experience less arduous, the committee recommended that graduate students be affiliated with undergraduate Houses on an experimental, non-residential basis. The committee also called on the University to make more campus housing available to graduate students and to construct additional housing, if possible...
...fascist invasion. Having restored their national economy in the shortest possible time, the Soviet people did what would have seemed the impossible. But the fact remains that after the Revolution we were forced to spend almost two decades, if not more, on wars and reconstruction. Under those arduous conditions, using our system's potential, we have succeeded in making the Soviet Union a major world power. This has attested to the strength and the immense capabilities of socialism...
...attorneys and we conceded minor errors in the piece at the start of the trial. We regret them and have said so many times. They came to light only after publication of the article, through the long and arduous process of pre-trial discovery and deposition. Our position in and out of court was that despite them, the article was "substantially true" and that the errors were neither intentional nor published with reckless disregard for the truth. In this we have asked to be upheld by the court. Michael C. Janeway '62 Editors The Boston Globe