Word: strenuousness
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...many ways, the nation is psychologically back. It inhabits itself again, more or less comfortably. One of the most encouraging aspects of the current self-confidence is that it signals an acceptance of great changes. "Healthy societies, like individuals, need periods of rest and < consolidation after periods of strenuous activism and crisis," says Jeffrey Alexander, a sociologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Many of our social critics are selling the American people short with this notion that the upbeat mood is some kind of pseudo-event engineered by Reagan and the money he spent on commercials...
...Colombian drug crackdown began to pick up speed last April, when Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was murdered in retaliation for his strenuous antidrug efforts. The assassination, the first ever of a Cabinet-level official in Colombia's history, shocked the nation and persuaded President Belisario Betancur Cuartas to abandon his reluctance to enforce an existing extradition treaty with the U.S. Since then, 78 alleged drug traffickers have been requested by the U.S., and Betancur has signed extradition papers for six of them. According to the treaty, however, the Colombians must first face charges and serve sentences in their...
Some students make pocket money waiting on tales, some work dorm crew, some push inflects into the hands of are a shoppers. A select few, however, get paid for less strenuous work. They take drugs...
Suddenly, all that is gone. Bankers now face their most strenuous survival test since the Great Depression. Everywhere they turn, bankers are becoming mired in swamps of controversy and competition. Consumers, who in the past accorded bankers blind trust, are rebelling against skyrocketing fees, poor service and impersonal treatment. Such marketing powerhouses as Sears, Roebuck and Merrill Lynch are now financial bazaars that have attracted thousands of bank customers with lucrative new services. As they became free of much federal regulation, banks began engaging in suicidal price wars. Because of poor management, overzealous lending and some bad luck, commercial bank...
...Murray, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, called the proposed pastoral "a restatement of the dogmas of the Great Society" and "a rehash of failed ideas." The bishops, wrote Columnist George Will, "hurl cliches at problems that have proven intractable in the face of strenuous efforts by persons of intelligence and dedication...