Word: strenuous
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...John Shupe of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute: "We have gone through an oil glut. The next shoe that is dropped in the Middle East can put the U.S. back in a worse position than we were in 1973. The country is no better prepared." Hawaii has made a strenuous effort to see that next time it, at least, will be better prepared...
With new recruits coming so slowly out of the classrooms, many controllers working in the towers complain that their hours and work load are too strenuous. At the nation's 22 busiest airports, some controllers may work as much as ten hours a day, six days a week. They contend that many of the 500 military controllers brought into the towers to help out after the strike were not qualified to handle heavy commercial traffic; others complain about the inexperience of controllers transferred from smaller airports to major ones. "We're getting them from places like Charleston...
...bicoastal trio stubbornly cling to their surplus pounds. They skip yoga ("Imagine you're a pink cloud," urges the teacher). They miss pool exercises, which involve strenuous efforts to drown plastic balls by pushing them "down ... aaand down .. . aaand harder, again!" During Shintaido, an unlikely hybrid of martial arts and modern dance that starts with an excruciating series of froglike hops, the trio sit in the lobby complaining. They are wondering about flights to Las Vegas when Karma Kientzler finds them...
...flattered, in a way, by the claim that I could somehow put a club-wielding workman, in the presence of three of his friends, in fear of bodily harm. I won't embarrass myself here with too strenuous a denial. I will note only that when I told John Marquand about the charge, he laughed himself half way across the Yard...
There is something heroic nowadays about a movie that dares its audience to keep a straight face. And there are rewards for passing this strenuous test. Quest's canvas is colorfully daubed with great woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers, and humanized with a prototype love affair between Naoh (Everett McGill), the chief Ulam, and Ika (Rae Dawn Chong, the daughter of Cheech's partner), a chatty, chalk-dipped girl from a more advanced tribe. McGill brings so much conviction to Naoh's desperate attempts first to keep the old fire alive, and then to create...