effortful, arduous transition, weighty

The Wall Street Journal tops its world-wide news box with a scoop on ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's apparent plan to begin transitioning power, according to anonymous U.S. officials. Unlike the last power change in North Korea 15 years ago, there is no clear successor to Kim, though his brother-in-law and third son are considered top candidates.


With Kindle, Can You Tell It’s Proust?
By JOANNE KAUFMAN The publishing world is all caught up in weighty questions about the Kindle and other electronic books and readers.



Ginsburg's Illness Puts Focus on Choices Ahead for Obama
The announcement this week that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer served as an early reminder of the weighty judicial choices ahead for President Obama, who must fill urgent vacancies on appeals courts and federal trial courts as well as potential...
(By Carrie Johnson, The Washington Post)




Arduous Transition Awaits Next President
If Sen. Barack Obama wakes up as the president-elect on Nov. 5, he will immediately assume responsibility for fixing a shredded economy while the Bush administration is still in office. If Sen. John McCain wins the election, he will face an imminent confrontation over spending with a Democratic...
(By Michael D. Shear, Michael Abramowitz, Anne E. Kornblut and Shailagh Murray, The Washington Post)

One to one with peace worker Alfons Schabarum

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Alfons Schabarum

The International Day of Peace provides an opportunity for individuals, organisations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. It was established by the United Nations in 1981 and since 2002 has been observed on September 21st.

The tragic events of September the 11th, seven years ago shocked people around the world. While the American President waged a war on terror as a consequence, war seemed not to be the right answer for Alfons Schabarum. The management consultant, in his mid-fifties, thought that he had to get active again to promote peace for the rest of his working life.
In this week’s Inspired Minds, Alfons Schabarum talks to Anke Rasper about his decision to give up his day job, move to Sri Lanka and work fulltime as a peace worker, and the arduous task of helping people to resolve conflicts.

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weigh (INFLUENCE) Hide phonetics
verb [I usually + adverb or preposition]
(of something such as a fact or an event) to have an influence or be important:
Easy access to a railway network weighed heavily with us when we chose a site for the new factory.

weight Hide phonetics
noun [U]
respect, influence, trust or importance:
Her experience does give her opinions quite a bit of weight.
After he was voted out of power, few people attached much weight to what he said.
Radical views don't carry much weight anymore.

weighted Hide phonetics

prepared and structured in a way that is likely to produce a particular effect, usually an advantage, rather than any other:
The system of benefits is weighted in favour of those who have children.

weighty Hide phonetics
adjective
describes a subject, book or piece of work that is important or serious:
weighty matters/issues

ar・du・ous

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━━ a. 骨の折れる; 勤勉な.
ar・du・ous・ly　━━ ad.

arduous Show phonetics
adjective
difficult, tiring and needing a lot of effort:
an arduous climb/task/journey


effortful

adjective

1. Requiring great or extreme bodily, mental, or spiritual strength: arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, demanding, difficult, exacting, exigent, formidable, hard, heavy, laborious, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, rough, severe, taxing, tough, trying, weighty. See heavy/light.
2. Not n
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   atural or spontaneous: contrived, forced, labored, strained. See true/false.

transition Show phonetics
noun [C or U]
a change from one form or type to another, or the process by which this happens:
The health-care system is in transition at the moment.
There will be an interim government to oversee the transition to democracy.

transitional Show phonetics
adjective
a transitional government
Eastern Slavonia is to revert to Croatian government rule next year after a transitional period under U.N. administration.