Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that way, our family faced not only the incredible pain of watching her vegetate, but we also faced harsh practical realities." The cost of nursing-home care was likely to top $30,000 a year. "How could I continue to send three kids to college with the additional financial strain...
...less perverse but also debatable strain of conventional criticism is that Gorbachev is improvising without a blueprint. According to three cliches now in vogue, he is riding a tiger, trying to stay one step ahead of the sheriff, leaping from one ice floe to another. In short, he has lost control of events and doesn't really know what he is doing...
Captains Bob Berle and Amber Duncan were faced with the prospect of scheduling training camps, practices, races, transportation and fundraising mostly on their own for the varsity team. Berle felt that he and Duncan could handle the extended role, but he knew that it would be a strain and that the team wouldn't be able to get the same coaching that most Division II teams...
Cleary is going to have to make these kinds of tough decisions, probably sooner than later, as the athletic department faces the strain of new capital programs--building new indoor squash and tennis courts across the river as well as a sorely needed, all-weather artificial surface field...
Kanter deserves particular praise. She remains tightly controlled throughout the play, showing Kate's strain but never overdoing it. As she describes the scenes of her youth to Stanley and Eugene, she reveals a side of her personality which seems incongruous to them but entirely believable to the audience. And when she realizes that Jack has left her, Kanter says nothing but still manages to dominate the stage. Her face says...