UNDER the tents during Fashion Week, designers labored strenuously to give the crowds a show of eccentricity.
The reason Microsoft labored strenuously to prevent AOL from grabbing AT&T's cable TV network is that the high-speed data pipes of cable are viewed as a crucial distribution channel for digital music, movies and Internet services -- and software -- of all kinds.
But labor unions strenuously oppose taxing health benefits, saying they have given up wage increases to secure them, and last week the idea ran into a roadblock when Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, expressed opposition to it.
Only those who labor or exercise strenuously for long periods in hot weather are likely to need more sodium than a natural diet provides.
Sinking into the pages, I forgot about the music lovers around me, the chandeliers above and the strenuously laboring musicians below, and slipped into the world of James's hardscrabble Australian boyhood.
On numerous occasions, when large prey such as mature salmon or geese are attacked, eagles have been seen to make contact and then drag the prey in a strenuously labored, low flight over the water to a bank, where they then finish off and dismember the prey.
Indeed, they argue strenuously that labor costs are just one of many reasons for the financial woes at United, American, Northwest and US Airways.
In his first novel about Billy Boyle, James R. Benn labored a bit too strenuously to draw a picture of a young soldier-sleuth who epitomized everything decent and admirable about World War II America.
His spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said separately that Mr. Bush might even be willing to support a bill that contained provisions sought by labor unions that the president had strenuously opposed.
Mr. Lazio strenuously defended his record on labor issues, and his aides asserted that the support offered for Mrs. Clinton by union leaders did not necessarily reflect the sentiment of the rank and file.
