Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's pay scale. After working three years without any salary increases they deserve a bigger raise and they need it more. The high cost of living in Cambridge and the surrounding area puts huge financial constraints on lowpaid workers; the recession only increases that strain...
Stephanopoulos developed his selflessness as the grandson and son of Greek Orthodox priests, expected to be above reproach -- a child impersonating a grown-up. "A lot of priest's kids go bad, go wild, can't stand the strain of the scrutiny of the flock looking at them," says Begala. "George clearly was up to it." His too-good-to-be-true face looks out from a gallery of photos lining the wall of his parents' apartment on New York City's East 74th Street, next to the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral, where his father serves as dean...
Safety tests on actual AIDS patients won't begin before next year, says Wong-Staal, now at the University of California, San Diego. But if it works for one strain of AIDS, it could be easily modified to work for another -- or any other viral disease, for that matter, from hepatitis to herpes...
...find myself having to restrain, whereas my whole nature is to go all out," he says. "It's been a strain on me, but I feel like I've been able to give it the attention that it needs, but not to let it dominate me or my goals for the team...
Professors too easily reduce the movement's entire Black nationalist strain to a single person. This person is then dissembled into a single phrase ("By any means necessary") and finally into a letter...