Word: strenuousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unusual to schedule high school track and football practice at night after the evening cool dispels the pollution. Glendora, a middle-class town in the San Gabriel Valley, at times has visibility of scarcely a quarter-mile and last year experienced 28 Stage-1 smog alerts, when any strenuous exercise is judged unhealthy. That is actually an improvement over the late '80s, owing to a combination of strict emission limits and still mysterious climatic trends, but the Los Angeles Basin's smog remains the worst in the country. Said Glendora football coach Dean Karnoski last month as he installed...
...defeated President had no illusions about his fate. Said he: "The Ozal era is over." Thus ended eight years of strenuous economic growth (9.2% last year), in which Ozal opened Turkey to the West, bullied his countrymen into embracing free-enterprise capitalism and, in the course of backing the U.S.-led coalition in the gulf war, greatly ingratiated himself with George Bush. During 70 foreign trips, Ozal tirelessly emphasized Turkey's strategic importance. More than ever, he insisted, Ankara is vital as a bridge to the Middle East, a bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism, and a force for stability...
When the doctors allowed her to finally start rehabilitating her knee, Johnston worked out a strenuous three hours every...
Dake's duties include the strenuous activities of letting people into the practice rooms, renting out pool cues and making change for video games. Out of a three-hour shift, Dake says, he actually workonly s 45 minutes. Not bad, considering he makes $6 an hour...
...Wylie seems to have struck a perfect balance--a symbiosis of sorts--between a Harvard education and prominence in figure skating to the mutual benefit of both strenuous disciplines. After a two-year hiatus between high school and college, Wylie made the decision to matriculate in Cambridge...