Word: herculean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herculean Task. Rosenthal's staff is kept so busy these days that a hallowed Times institution, the newsroom pinochle game, has been brushed into history. Where once a Times reporter was lucky to get one story a week, he now gets more than he can handle. In the old days, a cub reporter spent his first six weeks writing radio copy for WQXR, the Times's station; today he is likely to go out on a story his first day on the job. "If anything, we overload him," says Rosenthal. "We want to see what...
...finance India's herculean task of equipping its armed forces against the continuing threat of Chinese aggression, Desai boosted the budget by a staggering 33% to a record $3.8 billion; defense expenditures alone jumped 70%, to $1.8 billion. But Desai refused to squeeze the money out of the government's costly Five-Year Plan or even to rely on large-scale deficit financing. The cost will be borne by India's population-whose per capita income last year...
...turn of the century, U.S. industry's herculean hunger for capital forced most private businesses to "go public." Today, entering an even more radically different era of expanding world trade and multiplying common markets, U.S. corporations may have to take the next logical step and, says General Motors' Chairman Frederic G. Donner, "go global...
...cartoon, in a satirical French weekly, shows Charles de Gaulle all gussied up in Louis XIV garb as he packs a herculean suit of armor and Cyrano-sized nosepiece for a sally across the Rhine. "Madame," says the general to his wife, "will you please not forget my pajamas." No Dish Twice. But France's President will have very little time for sleep in the course of a strenuous six-day visit to West Germany this week. From Hamburg in the north to Munich in the south, the Germans-at De Gaulle's request-have laid...
...managed to expand Britain's trade with the Common Market. A tough, pragmatic bargainer who is trusted by the party's right wing (he did not oppose the Suez invasion), he was picked last year to succeed Iain Macleod as Colonial Secretary, has quietly demolished some herculean roadblocks in the path of independence for African territories, notably in reaching agreement last month on a five-year plan to settle 70,000 landless natives on a million acres of Kenya's choice White Highland farmland...