Word: slog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another, each identical. Now computers, at the speed of light, can make distinctions among individuals. Computers can integrate the individual to the whole. So that, in a simple example, some people can choose where to work and when to work. More important, electronics takes over much of the intellectual slog and releases the mind for higher flights. There is much freedom waiting in those machines...
Still, the scene isn't as bleak as you implied. The House and Senate bills must be reconciled, and the NRA must slog through many more negotiations before it is close to its goal. Handgun control groups, championed by Sara Brady, wife of wounded Reagan aid Jim Brady, are still in the fight...
Little liberal arts colleges everywhere have had a hard slog lately, but the troubles at Nashville's Fisk University, the institution founded in 1866 to give freed slaves a shot at learning, have been particularly poignant. At one point about two years ago, the local utility shut off the gas, forcing the faculty and student body to make do with space heaters brought from home or donated by friends of the college. Another time, food services were discontinued. On paydays, an unfounded rumor among the staff was that the first 20 employees to reach the bank stood a chance...
...seeded next to each other, so they're likely to slog it out most of the way down the three-mile course. Parker may show some emotion...
...some time later this year, the more probable course is more of the inconclusive long-distance dialogue that Reagan and Chernenko began last week. The two leaders are likely to continue publicly exchanging carefully modulated but hedged probes and propaganda parries, remaining in their respective capitals while their emissaries slog away in private at the daunting problems that divide the two countries. -By Strobe Talbott...