Word: hellishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time Democratic nominee for Congress, Niedermeier can probably take care of herself. But there are plenty of women out there with fewer resources who can't. Just last week the women at two Ford Motor Co. plants finally got the firm to acknowledge that life for them had been hellish--that they should no longer be subjected to obscene graffiti, verbal and physical abuse and retaliation for complaining about it. In a settlement, Ford agreed to pay them nearly $8 million and to ensure that three years from now, 30% of its supervisors will be women. So just because...
Whoever said that modern technology has taken the human spirit out of adventure? The plight of a woman at the South Pole's Amundsen-Scott research station who has discovered a lump in her breast shows that boldness and bravery are alive and well. Trapped in the hellish cold and ice of the region, which averages 80 degrees below zero during the current Antarctic winter, the woman, who is the doctor of the station, according to the New York Times, has had to deal with the possibility that she may have breast cancer. The Air Force jet crew, which over...
...days all the tunnels and shafts had to be dug with pick, shovel and explosives--backbreaking work. Now there are circular drills mounted on caterpillar treads, which lurch forward chewing at the soft rock, making a hellish racket that changes to a shrill glass-crunching scream when the teeth hit a pocket of "potch" (the gray waste near opal that runs in veins through the matrix). These drills are 4 ft. in diameter, and they create vaults in the tunnel roofs--beautiful, arched Romanesque spaces cut in the creamy pink-veined stone. It is troglodyte architecture: dense, theatrical and intensely...
...strange to once again have time, to tackle my work in earnest, not just praying to finish, but wanting to learn. I was interested--thrilled, really--with my second semester classes. I was only taken aback when I remembered that the cost of this renewed academic vigor was that hellish first semester...
...Those first years can be pretty hellish and not worth the money for some," he says. With the long hours, young investment bankers need a strong interest in finance or business to sustain them, Wang says. He cautioned against entering banking "just for the sake of doing something...