Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult to elicit farmers' cooperation because elephants often destroy farm and forest lands. And because of agricultural expansion and an increase in the number of individual farms, elephant habitats are diminishing, and farmers are generally not committed to wildlife or land conservation...
...been a rather difficult year for Democrats. Political analysts had dismissed them and partisans had scolded them for losing touch with "real Americans"--that elusive mainstream which doesn't need social programs, political action committees or Mike Dukakis. Real Americans, that is, just didn't need Democrats...
...yesterday's decision to drop the initiative will make it even more difficult to deal with the fiscal deficit without raising tax revenue, said Rep. Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge), the House majority leader...
...Robert A. Havern (D-Arlington) said the House did not back the idea because many representatives doubted whether the $46 million figure were correct. He said the money would also be difficult to collect...
...existing student-volunteer recycling program in Harvard's dorms does not turn a profit. The bulk of the paper collected in bins in dorm entryways, baled by student volunteers and driven to recyclers, is newspaper, which is difficult to de-ink and produces low quality recycled paper...