Word: tortuousness
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There is a clear absence of really biting satire and the whole second act stands on one joke at the end, a joke that is barely worth the tortuous journey to the finale...
...Mower resident's report of the exposed asbestos took a tortuous route from North Yard Senior Advisor to Freshman Dean's Office to Yard Superintendent to Dunbar Lab three weeks later. Instead of leaving communication paths to the whim of a case-by-case piecemeal policy, the University should inform students about environmental health hazards...
...revolutionary People Express, it was time to put the best possible face on defeat. The two fierce rivals and captains of cheap U.S. air travel sat at opposite ends of a table last week in Manhattan's St. Regis- Sheraton hotel to announce what many had expected: the long, tortuous People Express saga had ended with the airline's tentative sale to rapidly expanding Texas Air. The price: a bargain $125 million. At the same time, Texas Air will buy People's grounded subsidiary, Frontier Airlines, for $176 million. The complex deals, which come in the wake of several other...
Even with the President's support, tax reform faced a tortuous path through Congress. When the bill finally made it to the Senate Finance Committee in March, Bradley was a lonely figure, often the sole vote to close loopholes that most Senators wanted to preserve or even enlarge. As ever, Bradley was patient. "The committee had to go through an educational process," he said last week. "You either get lower rates or loopholes, and they wanted both. So before long we were about $100 billion in the hole...
Despite his wariness of the Soviets, Kampelman maintains a solid working relationship with his counterpart, Victor Karpov. In the long, tortuous process of arms negotiations, he is careful to remain receptive to the Kremlin's more serious overtures without giving ground on the American side. "What they respect is power," says Kampelman. "The extent to which their adversary has power of its own adds an element of dignity to the argument of the adversary." Reagan has given his negotiator a relatively free hand in the talks. Assisted by a team of representatives from the departments of State and Defense...