Word: strained
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...planet's farmers are hard pressed to feed 5.7 billion people -- and nearly 100 million newborns each year. So it was more than welcome news when the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute announced a new strain of rice that yields as much as 25% more grain per acre than existing plants do. Once disease and insect resistance have been bred into the rice, a process expected to take about five years, the miracle grain will be set to join the fight against hunger...
...German ambassador to NATO, Hermann von Richthofen, a grandnephew of the World War I flying ace known as the Red Baron. His complaints centered on what he styled an arbitrary U.S. push to expand NATO eastward rapidly and to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, which he said would strain the alliance "to the limits...
...artificial watermark is also printed on the back side of the paper, though one must strain and tilt the page...
Harvard gave Yale seven different power play situations. Although the Elis could not cash in on any of them, the physical strain of killing those penalties showed on the ice in the later stages...
...able to feed itself. "Food security will replace military security as the principal concern of many nations over the next 40 years," he said. The American harvest miracle -- and even last week's announcement by the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines that a new, higher-yielding strain of rice would boost world production 20% to 25% -- have yet to transform Brown into an optimist. The ratio of food to population is the lowest in 20 years, he says, and "it will take at least five years for the new rice plant to have any effect. In other crops...