Word: strenuous
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...women were also given tests of their cognitive function over the phone. According to Weuve, women who scored better performed more strenuous and extended physical activity than those...
...Last week, South Korea confessed to the 1982 plutonium experiment just a week after admitting its scientists had enriched a small amount of uranium in 2000 at a different facility in the city of Taejon, 120 km south of Seoul. The government went into strenuous spin mode, especially when accused of covering up the nuclear fiddling, a charge that was "groundless and unsubstantiated," according to the Foreign Ministry. But official explanations for how the nuclear materials got produced became more threadbare through the week. The uranium experiment in 2000 was supposedly carried out by a small group of very junior...
...White House was forced to acknowledge that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had approved, at least for a while, the use of dogs, nudity, stress positions--that is, torture--against enemy combatants. Indeed, Rumsfeld, who works at a stand-up desk, indicated a desire for at least one more strenuous stress position: "I stand 8-10 hours a day," he scrawled on a memo. "Why is standing limited to 4 hours...
...same May article, titled “Hollywood’s Biggest Casting Problem,” The Times reported that Glickman was one of three remaining top candidates for the position, which two congressional representatives had already turned down after strenuous efforts to recruit them...
...simply everything." She is also stubborn. As a 4-year-old, she dragged her mother, a bank cashier in the Romanian seaport of Constanta, to the gym to sign her up for lessons. Five years later, when her mother wanted to pull her out of training, deeming it too strenuous, she threatened to run away from home. Now Ponor is training even harder, cramming up to six hours of exercise into a single day. Her mother would not think again of asking her to leave training, says Ponor. "Now she knows I have to accomplish my dream...