Word: tortuously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the half-life of media memory -- is his convoluted account of dealings with his Arkansas draft board back in 1969. Clinton has bumped into questions about avoiding induction into the military during the Vietnam War since his early days in Arkansas politics, and his responses amount to a tortuous thicket of incomplete and not entirely compatible explanations...
...line about needing psychiatric assistance. She lives with fellow Radcliffe alum Margaret Gaminsky, a psychology researcher who work with chimpanzees. When they decide to renovate their apartment, the two women hire Mutt Vespucci (Chris Wilder), a crude, unpretentious handy-person, bike messenger and bouncer who delves into a tortuous love-hate relationship with Margaret...
...deformed creature that is their premature baby. The beast dominates their lives, driving Mary back to her parents' house with its incessant wailing. Henry, left to care for the monster, seeks an escape through his imagination only to discover the same beast within his own self. The tortuous story culminates with Henry's accidental destruction of the child as he tries to cut away the bandages that shroud...
Even so, the road to successful self-employment can be a tortuous one. Not everyone is cut out for its uncertainties and do-it-yourself nature. Nearly 2 out of every 3 new businesses fail within five years. The biggest roadblock is financing. According to Venture Economics, a market-research firm, an entrepreneur needs at least $8,000 to start a home-based business, which includes office supplies and equipment but not rent. Starting the same business in prime office space would take at least $50,000 in start-up capital. To launch a retail establishment, such as a bakery...
...quick to laughter and tears, Prince Norodom Sihanouk was bursting with both. An Air China jetliner from Beijing had just brought him home to Phnom Penh after a tortuous personal odyssey of nearly 13 years. For all the flag waving and jasmine petals that greeted him, though, the return last week of Cambodia's exiled former head of state brought no certain end to his homeland's generation-long nightmare. The Sino-Soviet rivalry that had helped drive Cambodia's civil war may be history. U.N. troops and officials may have arrived to help restore peace. But the seeds...