Word: strained
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...like my boxes," Carnesale joked at the end of an hour-long interview during which he discussed the duties of his new position and the strain of maintaining his position as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government...
Specifically, Rowe has been too busy trying to recharge a Harvard public relations bureaucracy that totally collapsed under the strain of Provost Jerry R. Green's unexpected departure last April...
...saccharine--halfway, no, totally nostalgic. In it I was trying to capture the aching soles of my feet and the soreness of my quads, the strain on my back, my much-in-need-of-a-massage shoulders and my terribly upset stomach. But I also intended to reflect every inch of the nine miles per day we hiked UPHILL. The entry was meant to represent our initial cynicism and our ultimate optimism...
...just new viruses that have doctors worried. Perhaps the most ominous prospect of all is a virulent strain of influenza. Even garden-variety flu can be deadly to the very old, the very young and those with weak immune systems. But every so often, a highly lethal strain emerges -- usually from domesticated swine in Asia. Unlike hiv, flu moves through the air and is highly contagious. The last killer strain showed up in 1918 and claimed 20 million lives -- more than all the combat deaths in World War I. And that was before global air travel; the next outbreak could...
Creating a vaccine for each strain of flu isn't exactly simple either. "First," says Yale's Shope, "we have to discover something new is happening. Then we have to find a manufacturer willing to make a vaccine. Then the experts have to meet and decide what goes into the vaccine. Then the factory has to find enough hens' eggs in which to grow the vaccine. There are just a lot of logistical concerns...