Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part, the Administration has been driven into this morass by a strenuous effort to reconcile conflicting goals: cover those people (the latest White House estimate is 39 million) who do not have health insurance, make certain that those now insured can never lose their coverage, improve benefits for the great majority, yet hold down the frightening increase in medical costs. One way might have been to switch to a Canadian-style system in which the government is the sole insurer and pays all medical bills, but the White House rejected that as impossible to get through Congress. Another idea would...
Thanks to a strenuous lobbying effort by the Clinton Administration, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas will sell 50 commercial jets worth $6 billion to Saudi Arabia -- generating jobs for tens of thousands of Americans in the voter-rich Los Angeles and Seattle areas...
...officials confirmed that current funding would fall $50 billion short of supporting the force levels Clinton has called for through 1999. Indeed, Clinton's budget slashes $1.4 billion in defense procurement programs, almost half the overall $3.25 billion in cuts the President is recommending. But the proposals will encounter strenuous opposition from congressional Republicans and such leading Democrats as Sam Nunn of Georgia, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee...
Wednesday morning, while the candidates are resting up after a strenuous election day, Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir and a staff of 90 election officials will begin to count the ballots in a manner that distinguishes Cambridge from every other city in the country...
...plays an ordinary electric bass, but the unpretentious spirit has stayed the same: "Come Back Down," or anything else from the second half of this album, will have anyone remotely tune-sensitive bobbing her head up and down in time, in no time flat. Alex, Dave and Phoebe's strenuous insistence on singing about life as if it were grade school has the benefit, first of all, of reminding you how much fun it was (occasionally) to be a kid: Aren't "Friends" as good a reason for pop songs as the run-of-the-mill broken heart? Listen harder...