Word: slogging
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...Then came four years of hard slog. In charge of steering the project, Paul Rivalland had to convince government and health officials that dialysis at Kintore was possible. The then Federal Health Minister, Michael Wooldridge, was skeptical. "It's something that no one in the world has been able to make work in the desert," he said. Undeterred, Rivalland had his "kidney committee" visit the Royal Perth Hospital's remote dialysis center in Broome, which helps around 50 Aboriginal patients in the bush. "You can do it anywhere," he insists. "Osama bin Laden is on renal dialysis. If he could...
...there a healthy alternative for women who don't want to slog around all day in sneakers or orthopedic clodhoppers? Nowadays the answer is a resounding yes. Over the past three years, nearly every major shoemaker has begun designing with one eye on fashion and the other keenly fixed on comfort and health. DKNY and Amalfi of Italy have crafted dress shoes with new technology like Insolia, a system invented by a podiatrist that shifts weight from the front of the shoe back to the heel, making high heels feel more like flats. At the same time, old standbys...
...there were two types of people in our street - the slackers and the hard workers. We had our troubles at home, sure, but we were hard workers." The work ethic got Latham through school and university, brought his family a home of their own, and eventually, after a slog in the minor leagues, brought the only son a career in big-time politics...
This may seem like an awkward time for Abizaid and the forces he commands to accentuate the positive. By many measures, the U.S. enterprise in Iraq remains a chaotic, costly slog. The prison scandal has plainly made the goal of winning Iraqi hearts and minds remote. Last week's brutal videotaped decapitation of American Nicholas Berg, 26, showed again just how dangerous Iraq remains. Even Donald Rumsfeld, the embattled Defense Secretary, acknowledged at least the possibility that the grand American design for Iraq--a stable democracy at the heart of the autocratic Arab world--might end in failure...
Research, though, can be a slog. InvestingInBonds.com has prices as well as a calculator to compare taxable and tax-free yields. But there are about 1.4 million muni issues trading, so it's hard to keep everything straight. Another downside: you have to pony up about 2% of the bond's value when you execute the trade, according to a recent study by the Securities and Exchange Commission's chief economist...