Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overwork of "working mothers" and the marital strain of two-career families pose serious dangers to the modern family. Unfortunately, the staff seeks to heal society's wounds with a balm of dubious effectiveness...
...perhaps you will be like the millions of American families who struggle desperately to balance job, family, marriage and sanity. In most of these families, overworked women bear the brunt of the misery. But according to extensive research by sociologist Arlie Hochschild, the strain of the two-career family hurts men and children as well. It breaks up marriages, undermines careers and, perhaps most tragically, makes children feel unwanted...
...short, they twist the subtle disparities between individual strains of thought into a single strain of enemy ideology. In doing so, they undermine and misrepresent the ideas of Harvard's moderate Republicans, many of whom object to the obnoxious and intolerant agenda of these self-described truth-seekers...
...graduation schedule requires students' families, in most cases, to take off three days from work--a huge financial strain for many families. Also, most working people receive only a limited amount of vacation time. Attending Commencement may take up three days of a five- or ten-day allotment...
...tiptoed toward relevance by running stories on Harlem and South Africa and the Quebec separatist movement. More likely, the clash had to do with personalities -- or money. In recent years the society has branched out into book publishing, a TV program, a travel magazine and a research journal. The strain on cash flow triggered cost cutting and staff reductions, leaving Garrett's writers and explorers with less luxuriant expense accounts than usual and strict project budgets to meet. Grosvenor favored shorter stories, focusing on the U.S., in place of the lavish globe-roaming epics of yore...