Word: slogging
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...Faculty didn’t come out and say this, and the College left plenty of time for CASV members to imagine the worst before they came out with their belated spin on the change. Students have been left to slog through the two opposing question-and-answer press releases that both sides have circulated, while listening to the near-hysterical CASV members who have been canvassing the dining halls...
...could be a tough slog for Kirch's new chief executives, Wolfgang van Betteray, an insolvency specialist, and Hans-Joachim Ziems, a Kirch adviser. "My experience is that they will never get all the creditors behind such a complicated insolvency plan," said Wolfgang Petereit, a bankruptcy expert in Mainz. "The commercial interests of the creditor groups are totally different." What's worse, the new law requires companies emerging from bankruptcy to keep all the employees on the payroll and honor existing employment contracts, which scares off many potential investors. Complicating matters in Kirch's case is the company's opaque...
...nightfall we weren't halfway through our bumpy eight-hour slog. The guards we'd acquired in Musa Qal'eh insisted we stop for the night. "It's not safe to go on," they assured us. We argued with them, as time was tight. After much discussion they relented, but only if we would sign a waiver to excuse them in the event of our deaths. At that point we figured if these men were scared there was probably good reason. We agreed to stay. In the mountains the night is bitterly cold, so we could work in our vehicles...
...explanation most frequently offered--that History was easy to read--is by far the most preposterous. Plenty of very smart people, even some physicists, found it tough to slog through, and Hawking, who is evidently more objective than some of his publicists, admits it was "not easy going...
It’s a vicious cycle. As students slog through the battery of applications and rejections, the desire to “get in” and the concomitant feeling that the whirligig of applications and rejections really does signify something important only grows. That leads to the superior attitudes of the students with the power of rejection over other kids...