Word: strenuousness
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...period of time. Because of that, there have been no major evaluation systems designed for faculty past the tenure forum or really any kind of evaluation of performance. It also has been that there has been very little loss of tenure for anyone. The rules are really very strenuous...
OPEC never had to worry about setting individual quotas during the palmy 1970s. The group jacked up the price of oil from $1.35 per bbl. in 1970 to $29 per bbl. ten years later. But the rising prices led consumers to make strenuous efforts at conservation and attracted a flood of capital that went into rinding and pumping oil. As a result, for the first time, in 1982, non-OPEC countries produced more oil than the OPEC nations...
Neither proposal aroused strenuous dissent, but lively interchanges peppered both discussions...
...needs. Clark's activities will, however, be limited not only by the reach of his life lines but by the fact that the heart cannot pump enough blood to support more than moderate activity. In the past, DeVries has commented that "sex may be the most strenuous thing these patients...
Ever since affirmative-action programs were first launched in the 1960s, the absence of significant numbers of blacks in managerial ranks has been a source of frustration and embarrassment to U.S. business. Many companies make strenuous efforts to recruit, hire and nurture black men and women. So too have blacks striven to meet the demands and pressures of corporate life. Yet there is a growing debate over how well business has done its job, how well blacks are doing their jobs, and how many invisible barriers keep blacks from important jobs that carry big responsibilities and big salaries...