Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Warburg Professor of Economics Zvi Griliches said he believes the increase in the number of older faculty will create a fiscal strain on the ability of departments to recruit new junior faculty...
...politician who seems to constantly be under fire for a perceived lack of consistency, this is a strain that runs indelibly through his entire career. In 1974, a young Bill Clinton fresh out of law school campaigned for Congress. He recalled "the words of a friend of mine who works on the Scott County road crew, "the people want a hand up, not a hand out." Twenty-two years later, Clinton spoke in Cleveland on the last day of his last campaign. He called on Americans to "work together to give everyone the tools they need, the chance...
...shouted at my television set, unconsciously falling into the infield chatter I somehow still associate with Odie Strain, the Blues' shortstop, "You're the guy, guy. You're the fella, fella...
...where Bill Weld and the HRRA are conservatives), anyone who criticizes one member of a group must detest all member of that group. In that case, the editorial displays an alarming anti-Christian and anti-American bias, for I am a proud member of both groups. The "anti-Semitic strain" you see in my article, Mr. Kaufman, exists only in your head...
...elections of 1990 had put a conservative party in power, some of whose members expressed openly racist, anti-Semitic views in Parliament and in the press. People began to realize that freedom of expression could mean skinhead demonstrations as well as democratic debate; self-government could mean an ugly strain of nationalism and xenophobia as well as independence; and economic liberalization could mean a "wild" brand of capitalism where a few people got immensely rich while the majority saw their prospects tumble...