Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Susan was sympathetic to the Clintons' plight. They didn't even own a house, and she knew Whitewater was a strain. But Jim vowed he wasn't going to send the Clintons any money beyond subsidizing them on Whitewater. He thought Clinton had blown it, and deserved to lose. More to the point, the McDougals were strapped for cash themselves. So McDougal decided he had to sell Lot 7 on the Whitewater property, the largest plot along the river and the one reserved for the Clintons' eventual use. It was unlikely that the Clintons ever seriously intended...
...should resign. "You can't quit," she told him. "I just got here." Lisa called Foster's White House office frequently, asking his secretary, "How's he doing?" Deborah Gorham always said, "Fine," trying to maintain a professional distance, even though she too thought Foster was suffering from strain...
Foster's relationship with Hillary suffered even more strain in the wake of the travel-office firings and never recovered. In response to a later question from the independent counsel, the First Lady testified that she hadn't even spoken to Foster after mid-June...
...then there was the ongoing strain of Whitewater...
Landau said while many students enrolled in computer science classes develop repetitive strain injuries, the entire University population is at risk...