Word: strained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment when transatlantic relations are under new strain, Europe is coming together as never before. The European Community is the world's most advanced and promising experiment in transnationalism. Meanwhile, the Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada will soon embrace Mexico. And on the far side of the Pacific, the booming economies of Southeast Asia are increasingly tying themselves to Japan...
Even as the Black Sea Fleet dispute heads toward resolution, larger issues continue to strain ties between the two states -- including the overall future of the Crimea and Kiev's resistance to Russia's taking the lead on economic reforms. Specially printed Ukrainian coupons, designed as a temporary currency to phase out use of the Soviet ruble, circulate freely in the republic. In Yalta's shops, cashiers give change in a random mix of coupons and rubles that leaves the buyer guessing about the value of both...
...fails, admit it and try another; but above all try something") is echoed in Perot's call for "action, action, action." Perot may never be ranked with Truman and Roosevelt -- and of course he would have to win first -- but he already personifies an enduring strain in American life, a pervasive antipathy for insiders. It is this ideological hostility that prompted the Populist and Progressive movements and the rise of George Wallace, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. But the sentiments that fuel the surge for Perot ("Take our country back") are perhaps best understood as a 20th century manifestation...
Inside ailing companies, Chapter 11 filings can lower morale and strain already tense relations between bosses and employees. Some TWA workers question owner Carl Icahn's motives for placing the airline in Chapter 11 in January. Instead of striving to clean up the company's finances, they say, Icahn's real goal may be to use Chapter 11 as a shelter from which to conduct fare wars like his current battle with American Airlines. "Chapter 11 can be a good opportunity for a company to cleanse itself of past mistakes," says Bill Compton, chairman of the pilots' union local...
...first suburbs to feel the strain are often located on the outskirts of spreading cities. In Hennepin County, just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, some social-service agencies have doubled and tripled their caseloads in recent years. "The first-ring suburbs are starting to reflect what we saw in inner cities 10 to 20 years ago," says Patty Wilder, executive director of the Northwest Hennepin Human Services Council...