Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea for the Course Decision Assistant came about when Digitas Technology Director Chung-Chieh "Ken" Shan '99 visited Digitas President Alexander Y. Wong '98-'99 this summer, lamenting the tedious process of searching and selecting his classes...
...these economical acronyms for the weaponry and technogadgetry with which he is so obsessed, Clancy cannot seem to turn in a novel that weighs less than a laptop. At 4 lbs. and 874 pages, his ninth, Executive Orders (Putnam; $27.95), is another doozy of laborious plot, bombastic jingoism and tedious detail. This time out, Clancy hero Jack Ryan, former CIA director, National Security Adviser, investment banker and maritime historian, gets the only job left to him that doesn't involve manning a cash register at Denny's: President of the United States...
...Then, they'll want to know who did this. So investigators are put in a difficult situation of balancing both the retrieval of bodies and the parts of the plane that could end this mystery." Rivera added that the investigators are doing all they can. "It's extremely dangerous, tedious work," she says. "Many of the bodies are probably among the wreckage." Relief may come soon for many relatives: Divers will begin removing large portions of the plane Tuesday to search for the remaining 69 bodies. the favored theory Scot Woods
...more than 100 Harvard students who participated as extras during the filming, most recall their participation fondly but also remember the tedious hours that went into the making of the film...
...current director of health services at Dartmouth College, John H. Turco '70, was the extra who scored the winning goal during the hockey scene. Although he describes his experience with the movie as exciting, he says the filming had its tedious moments as well...