Word: strenuousness
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...Expedition life is not as glorious as it is thought to be," Mayr says. "It is strenuous and dangerous, with malaria and dysentery. I wanted to go home and get published...
...went through a rather strenuous apprenticeship," recalls Berman, a workaholic with few outside interests other than his wife Elizabeth and their three children. "I learned what was Star Trek and what wasn't. I learned all the nomenclature, all the rules and regulations. I learned the difference between shields and deflectors -- that was a day right there. Slowly, Gene began to trust my judgment and also to trust that I would adhere to the rules, that I would not be someone who would want to change Star Trek...
...tape recorder at Wal-Mart, and for two months, twice a week, she went to the novelist's office and acted out her autobiography. "It was like watching a movie," says Humphreys. "She'd turn on the tape, and she was just gone." The experience gave both women a strenuous emotional workout. When Bolton brought in a photograph of Daddy, now dead, Humphreys felt her stomach wrench. Facing floods of tears without Kleenex, she ripped up a bed sheet...
Both Miller and Boyer said the long run was not terribly strenuous, though Boyer said she found miles 15 through 20 "tough...
...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...