Word: strained
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Mandela: My health is good. Of course the strain has been very great. One of these days I am going to take a gun and go and shoot, but don't tell the environmentalists. One time I shot a kudu bull. By the time I returned from the game reserve and landed at the airport, there was a demonstration. "You are a murderer! You are a murderer!" I am going to go to the bush and rest...
...lines puts undue emphasis on certain words, unintentionally generating a melodramatic effect. At times, the singers seem burdened not only by the orchestra's volume, but also by the words of the songs themselves. Changing some of the awkward lyrics into spoken parts might reduce the vocal strain on the singers and help improve the coherence of the story...
Marlink, who assisted in discovering HIV II, the second strain of the disease which causes AIDS said 14 have AIDS. He predicted that 40 million more will become infected with in the next six years...
Kevin Phillips, author and former Republican political theorist, sees Greenspan as "sort of the financial equivalent of an operative instead of a statesman. He may know all the players, but he has a strain of intertwined parochialisms -- Republican strategist; Ayn Rand devotee; Wall Street forecaster; writer of letters for special pleaders like Keating. It isn't the background of a great economic statesman. It's the profile of an Austro- Hungarian court figure...
...viruses of the same type as HIV, called retroviruses, could also cause cancer. Moreover, the results raise concerns about two major areas of research: the efforts to develop an AIDS vaccine and to cure other diseases through so-called gene therapy. Attempts to vaccinate people by using a weakened strain of HIV may turn out to be dangerous: the inoculation might offer protection against AIDS but cause a cancer. Doctors now experimenting with gene therapy use retroviruses as molecular taxis to transport bits of fresh genetic material into cells in an attempt to replace defective genes. Gene therapists...