Word: exhaustive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teaching fellow must be aware of the pressures that students face. Since students here are so strongly motivated, they will spend a tremendous amount of time on classwork, especially when they receive extensive feedback from their instructor. If the course load becomes too great, they may exhaust themselves or neglect other classwork...
...fizzled. He dropped out of Covenant College, a small Presbyterian school in Tennessee, after one semester, worked as a security guard in Atlanta, then moved to Hawaii. Depressed, however, by the unhappy love affair and the impending divorce of his parents, he tried to kill himself with a car exhaust. Treated at Castle Memorial Hospital outside Honolulu, he stayed on to do odd jobs...
...Polish terrorist was sent to blow up a bus. He burned his lips on the exhaust pipe...
...already pinching off 3.9 million bbl. per day in exports from Iran and Iraq, and the continuing resulting shortfall will completely exhaust the surplus in about three months. To help ease the squeeze, Saudi Arabia last week temporarily boosted its own production by 900,000 bbl. daily, to 10.4 million. Hardline OPEC members like Algeria and Libya, however, have threatened to cut back their own output in order to keep the market tight...
...during the 1973 war; the assumption was that Iraq's commitment against Iran, another of Israel's sworn enemies, would give the country some breathing room. Said one Israeli Arabist: "The best thing that could happen, from our point of view, is that both Iraq and Iran exhaust each other and kill one another off, and that they cannot rebuild their war machines for another 20 years...