Word: herculean
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...theme of the Cirque du Soleil experience is always the same: only from periods of intense chaos do we ever get the brief revelation of genius. Between each acrobatic or Herculean feat of circus theatrics (these beat anything, anything you'll ever see in Barnum and Bailey--in "Mystere," there's an entire sequence of bungee jumping acrobats costumed as birds), you're treated to a two or three minute interlude of dazzling fantasy: a parade of stilted clowns dressed as elephants, a giant inflated snail floating across the stage, a five-foot baby bouncing a giant ball around...
Partially because of the University's highly decentralized record-keeping systems and the intrinsic variability of casual employment, the actual number-crunching was a Herculean...
...decline of the national parties may pose a Herculean challenge for anyone trying to govern, but it also paradoxically reflects a growing political consensus in India. This election was principally a personality contest between Vajpayee and Gandhi; their parties are in broad accord on issues ranging from economic reform to nuclear weapons to the conflict with Pakistan over Kashmir. "Indian democracy may produce unstable governments, but the country?s political and economic direction has been remarkably stable for most of the decade," says Rahman. No matter who's at the wheel, the broad policy direction remains the same. And that...
...think it had been at the top of their list for years. Suddenly they are trumpeting Clinton's stern warning recently to the latest Russian Prime Minister that corruption "could eat the heart out of Russian society." Last week Secretary of State Madeleine Albright acknowledged that the "Herculean task" of transforming Russia has not been "fully achieved...
Instead, the dominance of recruiting as a post-graduate option seems to be the result of a number of concrete factors, including the ease with which one can get a banking or consulting job, the large amount of money one can earn in these fields, the Herculean efforts of the recruiting companies to bait intelligent 22-year-olds (coupled with OCS' compliance with them) and, most importantly, confusion on the part of those who apply...