Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poignant last appearance to discuss his terminal cancer. But mostly the show has succeeded because of its cozy familiarity. Critic Kenneth Tynan once suggested that during the turbulent 1960s, Carson may have become "the nation's chosen joker because, in Madison Avenue terms, he was guaranteed to relieve nervous strain and anxiety more swiftly and safely (ask your doctor) than any competing brand of wag." A bit overstated, perhaps, but it is true that TV never devised a better bedtime companion...
Demong said that the new fund, which was created from an HRE surplus, is meant to alleviate the increased financial strain on student groups...
...experiences there led him to clinical AIDS care, and eventually to the Harvard lab of Max E. Essex, Lasker professor of health sciences at the School of Public Health and chair of the AIDS Institute. There, Marlink and Essex began researching a new strain of HIV known as HIV-II, which also causes AIDS-like symptoms...
Frank Dalaklis, unit manager for the Leverett dining hall, said that there has been somewhat of an added strain but that the dining hall has continued to function relatively evenly during peak hours...
Despite the American alarm and anti-Japanese sentiment, a strain of ambivalence and self-criticism runs through American opinion. For one thing, anti-Japanese gestures can be very complicated in the new world. In Valley Stream, N.Y., Steve Verga sells Hondas, about 450,000 of which are now made in the U.S. annually. "When customers ask us, 'Where was this car made?' " says Verga, "we say, 'In Ohio, by American workers...