Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students and administrators said actual numbers are difficult to calculate because couples made up of two Harvard affiliates already receive housing regardless of marital status and because unmarried heterosexual couples with only one affiliate will also be eligible for housing...
...dans l'air ((Our Future is in the air))," one remembers that the two men liked to wear mechanics' clothes and compare themselves to the Wright brothers, who had given flying shows in Paris in 1908, and that Picasso's nickname for Braque was "Wilbourg" -- Wilbur.) It is difficult, subtle, cerebral and on the whole quite unspectacular art, brimming with an inventiveness that, simply because it has become so embedded in our very conception of modernity, can sometimes be quite difficult to see in its true quality...
...wouldn't be difficult. Difficult would be cutting Poland free from the strangling grasp of the Warsaw Pact. Difficult would be resuscitating the Polish economy after years of stale communist leadership. Difficult would be restoring Polish self-confidence after a half-century of subjugation...
...secret agreement to partition eastern Europe, including Poland, between them. A few weeks after signing the agreement, the Red Army rolled into a Poland already prostrate from the German blitzkrieg. The Soviets deported thousands of Poles--including 14,500 officers--to Russian labor camps. Their motives are not difficult to discern; they wished to short-circuit any future Polish leadership...
Woods also said that it might be difficult for some couples to provide documentary proof of their relationship. Under the terms of the agreement, unmarried couples must produce evidence that they have been "domestic partners" for at least six months. Accepted forms of proof include joint bills and bank statements...