Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...football-injury risk factors, I believe scientific studies of artificial turf have been inconclusive, because natural grass has been treated as a single entity. The hardness, density and traction of natural grass vary significantly from field to field. Since natural grass changes with the weather, it is very difficult to compare it to artificial turf. The relative injury risk for artificial turf vs. natural grass will be understood only when researchers can come up with different categories of natural grass that have a fixed injury profile. But I believe that eventually softer natural-grass surfaces using a low-traction species...
...Loegering's story illustrates, hiring and keeping employees is perhaps the biggest challenge to small businesses today. In a survey conducted last month by the National Association of Manufacturers, 83% of respondents said they found it extremely difficult to find and retain employees. The problem is as much quality as quantity. Says Giovanni Coratolo, director of small-business policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The No. 1 challenge of small businesses in this marketplace is hiring those who have a certain amount of education...
...consulting firm has created schedules that include 10 to 20 weeks of time off each year or that offer a seven- or eight-day break a month. Another way to make dismal shifts more appealing is to pay better. Coleman has found that many nightworkers will accept a difficult schedule if they can also work predictable overtime hours. "They could have a schedule," says Coleman, "with built-in overtime that rewards them with 30% more pay than a traditional worker while giving them 150 days off a year and never working more than two days...
...prepare for the role, Crowe perfected his American accent, put on 50 lbs. and dyed his hair seven times; then, when he still didn't look old enough, he shaved his head for a wig. Getting inside Wigand's head was more difficult. The two men spent less than two days together in South Carolina, golfing and talking about Wigand's new passion--teaching kids about the addictive ways of tobacco. "He makes it very hard for you to like him. He just doesn't care that much," says Crowe, who feels no need to win friends either. "The thing...
...hero here is Jeffrey Wigand. As played so acutely by Russell Crowe, he is a sullen, stocky, difficult fellow, a Hamlet whose soliloquies have to be read in his nervous blinks and stammers, in the latticework under his tired, wary eyes. They are all the hints we need to detect a soul swamped in ethical dilemmas. When Crowe gets to command the screen, The Insider comes to roiled life. It's an All the President's Men in which Deep Throat takes center stage, an insider prodded to spill the truth...