Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hour? But before anybody can boost research to rocket speeds, the committee pointed out, the U.S. must more than double the number of people engaged in it-from 20,000 to 45,000. And this means not only more technicians but more physicians, whose training is long, costly and difficult. The U.S. must train 8,900 new M.D.s every year by 1970, as against 6,800 a year now-which will mean setting up 14 to 20 new medical schools. Personnel is already in hen's-teeth supply, causing barefaced piracy. Merck's Connor quoted one drug company...
...again make music on such a grand scale in Prades. He no longer has a residence there, nor is he entirely welcome in the hamlet he made famous. This year his landlord jacked up the rent of the cottage he always occupied. And the cellist himself was a little difficult. "If M. Casals met God in the street," remarked a town official, "there is some doubt as to who would take precedence." Offered an apartment in nearby Molitg-les-Bains. Casals will spend part of his summers there with his handsome, 21-year-old bride (and fourth wife) Martita Montanez...
...Clearing in the Woods is no light summer fare; it is a "difficult" play, and demands unflagging concentration. The work is highly unorthodox: there is no real plot in the usual sense of the word; and the element of time is employed in a fluid and daring...
...introduction, Baxter stated that since "the Russians have a full quiver of weapons," and are "extraordinarily well-versed in propaganda," the American position becomes "a problem of multiple defense, difficult to fit into a forty-two billion dollar budget...
Consequently, though overall Soviet aid is but a fraction of American aid, Russia creates favorable political over-tones by concentrating assistance in seven crucial nations, employing "show-piece" aid, and sending culturally and linguistically prepared technicians. Considering the outlook for the future, Burns affirmed that "the problem is difficult--it has no guides...