Word: arduous
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...closeness of the family--he still calls his parents Mommy and Daddy, and he is devoted to his younger sister, nicknamed "Sweetie"--made arduous self-discipline into a labor of love...
...brother is innocent, provided jurors with a mountain of circumstantial evidence that Tim was in the frame of mind to take revenge for the government's actions at Waco. Her composure disappeared in a grueling cross-examination as the defense tried to show she had been intimidated by an arduous eight consecutive days of FBI interrogation after the bombing. Crying and dabbing her tears with tissue, she told jurors federal agents had placed blown-up pictures of her on the walls along with photocopies of federal statutes. On one, a handwritten note read: "penalty = death." She said...
...industry in which 12-hour days are considered short, Pleasantville was not an especially arduous production. But the fact that Hershman was killed on a relatively routine shoot instead of a challenging picture with big effects only underscores the danger. Says Steven Soderbergh, Pleasantville's co-producer: "It's amazing that it didn't happen on other projects where these specific kinds of abuses are rampant...
...champion triathlete; struck and killed by an automobile while on a bike-training ride; near Poolesville, Maryland. The effervescent mother of five didn't take up running until she was 38. In the past 10 years, she had won six national and four world titles in the triathlon, an arduous combination of swimming, cycling and running...
...factor that faculty most cite as the disincentive to teach in the Core is the arduous process by which Core courses are approved. Making this process less adversarial is a goal that should be pursued under any system. Some have claimed that if the approval process for departmental courses is less formidable than that for Core courses, faculty will not voluntarily opt to teach in the Core itself, preferring to offer departmental classes for Core credit...