Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burton gets little chance to display his acting. Instead of watching the deterioration of a gentleman and a scholar, we are treated to a tedious string of ghouls and black magic, hot and voluptuous women--all of which loses any excitement after the first half-hour...
Patients need have no fear that their care will suffer from the wider employment of health assistants. In fact, not only do technicians release doctors from tedious and time-consuming chores; in many cases, the technicians become so skilled that they do these specialized jobs better than most doctors...
...knowledge, training techniques are undergoing revision in some major corporations, while others have conducted highly sophisticated and effective management training programs for some time. General Electric, for instance, has a number of successful training programs. A 3-year training period might give the impression of being a tedious undertaking...
...reporter is weary of economic priorities, and rejects them as no longer relevant. Tom Kahn, who will lead a Freedom Budget Conference workshop this Saturday on Jobs and Freedom, describes this weariness in the following way: "To some liberals and radicals, this list of social priorities has become tedious, commonplace, un-original--as if the constant recitation of the need were synonomous with implementation." What is significant about the Freedom Budget is its refusal to ignore the sweeping changes occuring in the economy and its recognition that only an unprecedented, national commitment to eliminate all the causes of poverty...
...tedious exercise of generals unfortunately adds up to 30 per cent of a student's Honors grade, and this year the department is compounding its sins by reinstitutnig junior generals, which were wisely eliminated in 1961. Probably many students don't take the tests too seriously. But if junior generals do loom large to concentrators, the sharp focus of junior tutorial would be undermined, and the student's freedom to dabble with General Education would be restricted as he is forced to get ready to meet the requirement...