Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show, which offers a meal, a circus and a lot of comic milling for $150 per person (excluding drinks), means to be the ultimate upmarket version of show-biz spectacle. The decor is suitably lavish. The four-course dinner is ambitious, if too heavily salted. And the entertainment is strenuous in trying to please, offend and astonish all at once...
Several of those who served on the Governor's council said they believed the strenuous selection process will make Fried a better judge, by reminding him of both liberal and conservative viewpoints and the commitment he made to neutrality...
...jockeying over reform has caused tempers to flare. Some Senators saw evidence of overly strenuous industry lobbying last month, when Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota, chairman of the committee that drafted the Senate's version of the bill, read into the record a letter from a Time Warner senior vice president, Timothy Boggs. The letter involved a contentious pricing provision favored by small cable companies and opposed by entertainment providers Time Warner and Viacom. It indicated that Time Warner's HBO unit had agreed to provide programs to a group of small cable-TV companies, including one in Pressler...
CASALI AND KLIPFEL, LABELED AS snitches, fast became outcasts. Klipfel found a black plastic rat in her office. Pictures of her children were knocked off her desk repeatedly. In a lawsuit they filed in Chicago federal court, Klipfel and Casali allege that ATF conducted a "deliberate and strenuous" campaign of retribution meant to suppress further disclosures of misconduct. Says Sanders: "Retaliation is so obvious...
...Crimson's poor play was partially a result of coach Ihsan Gurdal's strategy of resting the starters for the more important matches. Gurdal had anticipated a strenuous day and decided to play the starters only sparingly...