Word: tediousness
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Between Metullah in northern Israel and Nabatiyah in southern Lebanon, a winding road passes through two P.L.O. minefields. The Israelis have made no attempt to clean out the mines, a tedious and risky job that they would have to take on if they stayed. The Israelis are apt to find that Lebanon itself is a political minefield that poses ever greater dangers with each passing...
...confirmed suspicions: the mice were not the purebreds promised by their supplier, the Massachusetts-based Charles River Breeding Laboratories, Inc. Since the company is the world's largest producer of lab animals, similar mongrels are presumably frolicking in the cages of many other research centers. And the long, tedious work of determining where they are and what experiments they compromised must now begin...
...Nobody ever calls you when they're be having themselves. As a rule, you always get called when people are at their worst. It's sad. It depresses me." Yet they go on doing the best that they can. The tedious side of policework rarely figures in TV serials or bestselling novels. Midnights offers a healthy antidote to all those shoot-'em-ups, a reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic . -By Paul Gray
...delivered a brief homily, concluding that "the most important thing about these talks is that we are now finally talking." With that opening exchange last week at Villa Rose, Moscow's diplomatic mission in Geneva, the two negotiators ended a hiatus of three years and resumed an esoteric, tedious and secrecy-shrouded but vital business: trying to reduce the swollen Soviet and U.S. inventories of the most powerful weapons on earth...
...most part, an anonymous, thankless and tedious duty. The four officers would be among the first to hope that it stays that way; the moment their job becomes exciting could be the beginning of World War III. Yet if they were not there, and the black bag in their charge were not within the President's easy reach, he would be unable to preserve and enforce a balance of power between East and West; he would no longer embody the sanction of American force necessary to restrain the nation's adversaries. In that case, the world would be an even...