Word: laboredness
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The President's statements were intended to smother some of the prospects for discord at the summit, and they succeeded. Few of the issues that should have divided the seven leaders were allowed to disturb the tone of the meeting, even though, as the gathering concluded, about 150,000...
The French traditionally oppose political statements at economic summits, but President François Mitterrand agreed to go along. At first, the U.S. wanted the declaration to include a commentary on East-West relations. The idea was dropped after the French objected, and the U.S. proposed the idea of a...
Increasingly, the lives of young near-victims of drowning in frigid water are being saved by techniques perfected over the past decade. Jimmy's is almost a textbook example: fire-department paramedics at the scene of the accident immediately started cardiopulmonary resuscitation, fluids and drugs were given intravenously, and...
All that we had labored so hard to grasp, and had come so close to grasping, slipped away, with consequences not yet wholly revealed.
In Witt, the arguments ended, for here was a skater of both athletic power and aesthetic sensibility. She has a natural fizz that makes the efforts of most others look labored. In fact her coach, Jutta Muller, is a stern drillmaster who is accustomed to Olympic triumph: her daughter Gabriele...