Word: tediousness
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...long been held that computers drive economic growth by automating tedious chores that can be done more efficiently by machines. Little did we know that the chores would include news editing. That's the idea proffered by Google as it unveils its computerized news service. The site boldly states: "Google News is highly unusual in that it offers a news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without human intervention. Google employs no editors, managing editors, or executive editors...
...everything, the U.N. doesn’t expect to have inspectors on the ground until six months from now, giving Hussein the chance to prepare his stash of anthrax, dig up old canisters of VX and throw everything he has at developing a nuclear bomb. Weapons inspection is a tedious process, and the first phase will be spent just figuring out which installations need to be inspected. If the inspectors are ever on the verge of finding something important, Iraq can always throw them out or obstruct their work, since there is no enforcement mechanism. At the end of this...
...leaders agree that the work can be tedious...
Step down, step down, step down. It's tedious--and so not as terrifying as being upstairs, where Genelle kept fretting that the building would topple. At least climbing down is a task to focus the mind. When the group entered the stairwell a few minutes earlier, everyone was relieved that it was less smoky than expected. Now they are basically calm, not really rushing...
Meanwhile, the Core Curriculum still lives, a grim intellectual wasteland that blights the career of all undergraduates with its tedious and facile offerings that neither energize nor educate. It must be scrapped when it comes up for review next year and replaced with a distribution requirement that does not limit student choice and stultify students’ intellect. Instead of making the sweeping reforms suggested by Summers’ inaugural speech, the only change has been to exempt students from one additional requirement. And while exempting students from another requirement is a welcome step, it fails to address the larger...