Word: strenuous
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...tough schedule will be somewhat less strenuous for the Crimson, since 10 of the 13 contests are at Soldiers Field. In comparison, 15 of Harvard's 21 contests last year were on the road...
...rejected the strenuous objections of Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, and sold U.S. weapons to Iran even though his Administration was loudly urging other nations not to do so. He did this on the advice of two far less assertive aides, first Robert McFarlane and then John Poindexter and, more significantly, William Casey, the late CIA director whose ghostly presence haunted the hearings as the one who may have masterminded the events...
Clearly, the action by the Governors marked a stand against nuclear energy. They knew that by refusing to offer the evacuation plans they were playing trump cards which would prevent the NRC from licensing the plants. Markey, as a strenuous opponent of nuclear energy, sponsored the amendment because he saw the potential in the Dukakis and Cuomo actions to prevent unclear plants from being licensed forever...
After four gritty years working on the road for the Santa Clara County transportation agency -- patching holes, shoveling asphalt, opening culverts -- Diane Joyce applied in 1980 for a less strenuous desk job as a road dispatcher. At the time not one of the California agency's 238 skilled positions was held by a woman. Joyce knew, however, that two years earlier the county had enacted a voluntary affirmative-action policy designed to correct that imbalance...
Japan claims it has taken strenuous action to live up to the agreement. Even before the U.S. announcement, the country's Ministry of International Trade and Industry earlier last week had ordered its semiconductor industry to reduce the output of some types of chips by 10% in the second quarter, which comes on top of a 10% cut in the previous period. Part of Japan's difficulty in preventing rampant discounting of its chips is a severe glut in the $31 billion worldwide market for semiconductors. Several Japanese trading companies buy surplus chips from manufacturers inside the country and then...