Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...health care crisis will not yield to a quick-fix solution. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Task Force on Health Care Reform face a Herculean ordeal in sorting through the issues and wrestling with countless conflicting interests. Unless you have a Master's in health care administration, a quick glance at the structure of the current system would probably leave you thoroughly confused...
...spent the next 47 days with his mouth wired shut, is now known by many first-years for his ordeal. Many undergraduates say stories like Lee's have shaped their perceptions of UHS in a negative light, often breeding widespread distrust of the service...
...However, I did, at least until the last few weeks, believe that we could rely on their having an attitude of kindly tolerance toward them. I wonder if Mr. Heller and those students who would simply prefer not to have children around could try to view the ordeal of having small children in the dining hall as one of life's little lessons in learning to live alongside those whom they dislike...
...national ordeal of Clarence Thomas, the latest appointment to the court, illustrates how far down into the mire the entire process has sunk. Sadly, those who felt that Thurgood Marshall's sucessor should be Black had their demand of color met at the expense of ideology; they were greeted with the one of the most conservative nominees of recent memory. Again, due to what happened to Bork, Thomas was without the judicial qualification that used to elicit a Supreme Court nomination...
...middle of Baird's ordeal, Clinton awoke on a bright, glassy morning and embraced a quarter of a million people. He had promised upon his nomination that he stood for the people who paid their taxes and played by the rules, and he vowed upon his Inauguration "to reform our politics so that power and privilege no longer shout down the voice of the people." Before the day was over, it was the people who were shouting about something that outraged them, and by the end of the week the message finally got through...