Phase two was an arduous lead paint abatement project, while the latest phase, completed last month, included all new lighting and plumbing, replastering and painting of all interior surfaces, and the installation of a wheelchair lift and handicapped-access bathroom to comply with county and federal requirements for public buildings.
There is no trace, a year later, of the arduous path that led from the purchase of the house to its full occupation.
Mr. Chen's departure from Beijing on Saturday, and the arduous negotiations that led up to it, appeared to reflect careful calculations in both countries that the episode was not worth jeopardizing relations.
It is this long, arduous experience that led to the majority of public opinion turning against the government for bailing out Wall Street while ignoring the economic devastation people were facing on "Main Street" through foreclosures and massive job losses.
The reshuffling will move out a prominent diplomat, Christopher R. Hill, who led the arduous negotiations with North Korea.
It does not care about the Senate's preoccupations, and it is unimpressed with the months of debate and arduous deal-making that led to the historic vote.
As a young reporter for The Wall Street Journal, he co-wrote, with The Journal's Alan Murray, a minor classic about government: "Showdown at Gucci Gulch," which chronicled the arduous, multiyear effort that led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
An arduous six-year survey led by such luminaries as Jean Delambre, Jacques-Dominique Cassini, Pierre Mechain, Adrien-Marie Legendre, and others to determine the arc of the meridian from Barcelona, Spain, to Dunkirk, France, eventually yielded a value of 39.37008 inches for the new unit to be called the metre, from Greek metron, meaning "measure".
Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez, along with other Latino parents, led the arduous push for justice and were victorious in their 1947 Mendez v. Westminster lawsuit, which set the precedent for the milestone 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case.
Richard Bruce Cheney, the man who had acceded to Governor George W. Bush's request in 2000 that he lead his search to find a perfect vice president, and who found that this arduous and exacting effort led to none other than himself, would be there at Bush's side, or somewhere in the murk behind him, until the bitter end.
