Word: tortuous
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...that was it. More words followed from the President about his concern for completing the long, tortuous investigation into the fate of U.S. servicemen in the Vietnam War who are still listed as MIA, or missing in action. Even as he spoke, though, recognition of Hanoi was a reality. A foreign policy initiative that no White House incumbent since 1975 has felt safe enough or accommodating enough to hazard was now Clinton's fait accompli...
...Area Total Energy Project (MATEP) has always been somewhat controversial. In the 1960s and '70s when it was conceived, critics argued that the power plant, which provides energy for Harvard's teaching hospitals, was expensive and inefficient. In the 1980's the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection held long, tortuous hearings over whether Harvard should be allowed to set up an array of diesel electricity generators in the Longwood Medical Area...
After a week of tortuous negotiations the Senate approved $16 billion in cuts from the current budget. The Senate package, which restores money cut by the House to social programs-a result of Democratic prodding-will have to be reconciled with the House's more stringent $17 billion in cuts...
Wrongheaded and tortuous as this Merchant sometimes is, the updating is witty and apt. The "news of the Rialto" becomes fodder for a pair of gossip reporters on a happy-talk TV newscast. Shylock's trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped right out of Court TV. With a few exceptions -- Elaine Tse's overwrought Portia, for instance -- the actors strike a nice balance between Shakespeare's poetry and Sellars' stunt driving. For the rest of us, it's a wild ride...
...reason to be. The Marius Era in the Expository Writing program--a tortuous 15-year period which saw the program advance even as teacher morale plunged--is over. Sommers, the longtime associate director to Richard C. Marius, is now firmly in charge...