Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last final is at the end of May, we begin after most of our friends have already gone back to school and our winter breaks are marred by impending final exams and term papers. Yet perhaps the most frustrating aspect of Harvard's schedule is that it is so difficult to understand why the administration subjects us to it. Despite the enormity of the task, a few hardy students recently responded to the daunting question...
...split ticket is a nice idea, she says, but it doesn't work well in practice because it is so difficult to unify conflicting beliefs...
...while, a few days maybe, that's incredibly difficult and, worse yet, incredibly ridiculous. You move just to move, not only because you get tired but because you're in this free country of ours, and ought to be allowed to. You'll stand still for no man. But then it begins to dawn, as it did on me Monday, in a warm sun in an unremarkable parking lot outside the Px. You stand still because at some point someone told you to, someone with power. But it's also because you can. You get hooked on the discipline...
...saying for pretty much all of this - "Too easy." To which we are to gustily reply, "Too easy, drill sergeant," and when he walks by in his big-brim hat, a guy who's not only done all his asking but jumped out of airplanes besides, it really is difficult to tell him it's too hard. But that little saying is still a taunt. The time runs too long when it's theirs and much too short when it's yours (shine boots, clean locker, floss). Monday, they always promise you, it's going to get really tough...
...roads simply attract new cars, leading to more overcrowding. These folks want to see new forms of transport in our cities: more monorails and subways, and, of course, fewer automobiles. "The real challenge here is getting people out of their cars," says Lacayo. "And that's quite a difficult task...