Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...folks in Alice, Texas, have good reason to be nervous around monkeys. Six years ago, several Philippine macaques imported by the Texas Primate Center in Alice came down with the strain of Ebola virus that had struck monkeys in Reston, Virginia, a year earlier, in a case that inspired the best-selling book The Hot Zone and the movie Outbreak. No humans got sick in either incident, but 100 animals had to be sacrificed...
Those anxieties may seem quaint to us now, but they were real enough then to trigger a deep sense of discontent and unease. That kind of transcendental disquiet has surfaced over and over again in our political campaigns. Its persistence is less about introspection than about a uniquely American strain of denial...
...Japan's secret formula does not work anymore. Neither its economy nor its society enjoys a special dispensation from misery. When President Clinton arrives in Tokyo this week, he will find a country that has undergone five years of economic gloom, whose society is experiencing unprecedented strain and whose political system is fracturing. In a recent poll covering 10,000 adults, 54% of the respondents said they felt Japan was becoming worse off. Faced with all its adversity, Japan is at a crucial point in its postwar history, and the direction it takes will be vitally important, not only...
...that Jews are not a humiliated people, that in spite of the attempts to defile and denigrate them, they are alive and well and that they are doing more than surviving (much less can be said for the Nazis and their sympathizers)--Jews all over the world from every strain of religious observance are on the cutting edge of the sciences and arts. The brutality of the Germans, or for that matter, the anti-Semitic atrocities of every other country, did not succeed in sapping the Jewish people of their destiny...
Once the single SRSV virus strain was identified, the researchers aimed to pinpoint its source...