Word: thanklessness
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...scholarship are excited about her selection, and hopeful that the coming decades will be ones of intellectual renewal and quiet, steady accomplishment. May I suggest that the new president make it an early priority to raise the scholarly standards required of current undergraduates? It is no doubt a thankless task to undertake, but one that would have the minor benefit of improved commentary in The Crimson. DAVID S. GREWAL ’98 February 13th, 2007 Cambridge...
Running an airport shuttle service for hundreds of students is a complex, time-consuming and un-fun undertaking. Councilmembers, while generally conscientious, had little incentive to succeed at such a thankless task, especially outside of election season. As such, the UC’s airport shuttles had a tendency to leave students vexed, delayed, or even stranded...
...answer is that Lott won (by one vote over Tennessee's Lamar Alexander) because he spent the past four years quietly making himself as useful as possible to his colleagues. He lent his old strengths as a backroom dealmaker and a master of arcane Senate rules to sometimes thankless tasks. He not only won back allies that way, but he also sharpened the exact skills that his party will need for the next two years, when its main goal will be to stop Democratic bills from seeing the light of day, let alone the President's desk. As the whip...
...more than a week, officials at France's Foreign and Defence Ministries have been doing a valiant but thankless spin job trying to justify France's miserly contribution to the beefed-up UN peacekeeping force for south Lebanon. An additional 200 men was regularly touted as "a doubling of the French UN contingent," and much was made of the 1700 military personnel offshore on French ships shuttling refugees to Cyprus. " We're the only country that has sent any new troops to UNIFIL so far," bristled one Defense Ministry official earlier this week. "The Americans are nowhere to be seen...
...Writing to Lloyd George, Churchill, frustrated after all the bloodshed in World War I, asked, "Why are we compelled to go on pouring armies and treasure into these thankless deserts?" But the British had created the problem, cobbling "Iraq" from three disparate Ottoman provinces. They chose sides, picking the Sunni minority to run the country. The Brits remained there 12 years, bleeding occasionally, until 1932. The bleeding continued after they left, as the Sunnis brutalized Iraq until 2003. The Bush Administration, defiantly ignorant of history, has created a situation far more dangerous than the one Churchill complained about...