Word: difficult
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Behind the scenes, the Administration was working in a crisis mode. In private Bush described himself as going through "the most difficult time of my presidency," and by week's end the strain in his face was pronounced. To save Cicippio, the State Department set up a round-the-clock hostage task force, while the White House launched a diplomatic rescue effort that one U.S. envoy called "a full-court press on everybody we know." Characteristically, the President worked the phone with the heads of state of most European allies and nations in the Middle East -- with the notable exception...
...high-stakes shell game. But even if they were found, their guards would be likely to kill them before the rescuers could prevent it. "We've considered going in for the hostages time and time again for years," says a senior Administration official. "But it's just an exceptionally difficult environment in which to operate." Indeed, the U.S. reportedly knew where Higgins was for several months last year, but Ronald Reagan refused the Pentagon's pleas to be allowed to go in after him because of the risk that the remaining hostages would be killed in retaliation...
...used the combination for six or more years. Medical experts point out that parts of this report contradict some earlier evidence and that data on many more women must be collected before the Swedish results are either confirmed or refuted. Nonetheless, the study injects new doubts into the already difficult choices that women must make concerning which hormones, if any, to take...
...country will save some $12 billion in payments over the next four years on its foreign-bank loans; these represent $54 billion of its total debt. Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari hailed the agreement on television, declaring, "This is the culmination of one of the most difficult, complex and tense financial negotiations ever conducted in the history of our country...
...very difficult to express very much optimism when they still have one hostage whose life is under threat and others who are in captivity with no immediate prospects for relief," said White House spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater...