Word: tediousness
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...objectionable monopolistic practices before even getting into court. And in another case, also unnamed, Barnes expects to make antitrust history: within 60 days, the Government and the defendant hope to submit the case to a federal court on a mutually agreed statement of facts, thereby sparing both parties the tedious months and years of testimony and fact-finding that have typified antitrust litigation, such as the investment banking case...
...millinery field, one leading designer spends upwards of $50,000 a year just making sample hats for his showrooms, may take a full day to make just one original. In shoes, the daintier the product the more tedious, exacting and expensive the work. And while it may seem that women get stuck when they spend $25 or more for a pair of shoes that will last only a few months, it is not easy for manufacturers to get rich on the deal. I. Miller, one of the leading makers of expensive women's shoes, makes a mere 4% gross...
...book, Paton's manner has far more tedious, the treatment of the subject matter far less convincing. Pieter van Vlaanderen, the policeman, faces the problems of a full-blooded man who suffers from a prudish wife, a puritanical society and his own rigidly conventional conscience. So, after a long moral struggle that is talked about a great deal but hardly described at all, he gives in to his lust and goes after the girl Stephanie. By the scheming of a subordinate on the police force, he is caught, tried, and sent to jail (under South Africa's Immorality...
...Rome's Emperor Augustus and Sweden's Author-Doctor Axel Munthe found Italy's idyllic Isle of Capri a perfect spot in which to get away from it all. Augustus' misanthropic successor Tiberius found the island's solitude so inspiring that he often invited tedious friends out to the imperial villa for the weekend, only to push them off a cliff as soon as they arrived. The only thing Capri lacked was a supply of fresh water. Rain water, collected in cisterns, had to suffice Augustus, Munthe and all Caprioti...
Through the week the tedious negotiations in Korea (see above) were uppermost in the President's mind. Just before he left Washington for a weekend with 120 top-ranking officers and defense officials at the big Marine base at Quantico, Va., the President had another conference on Korea. The meeting delayed the departure from the White House, and although the motorcade roared down to Quantico at 70 m.p.h., the President was late, and the official welcoming party was confused and missed his arrival. When he finally caught up with the President, Quantico Commandant Lieut. General Clifton B. Gates...