Word: strainful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago Bears quarterback was a natural to talk about stress for Connections, a biweekly series of billboard topics posted in 1,500 high schools around the country. Despite the munching pose he struck for one poster, McMahon rarely takes it out on the ball. His tips for coping with strain: "I never really worry about things before they happen. I let things happen and I deal with them then . . . It's important to keep your sense of humor. You have to see the light side . . . If something is pressuring me, I have to get rid of it. I have...
...third threat is a strain of fire ant called Solenopsis invicta that was discovered this year in northern Alabama, northern Mississippi and Oklahoma. Until now the insects, which first entered the U.S. five decades ago, had been confined to a warm-weather belt between Lubbock, Texas and Beaufort, N.C. Invicta has managed to make a different but equally menacing adaptation. The species has begun nesting in supercolonies, insect megalopolises that contain 10 million to 20 million ants. Says Clifford Lofgren of the USDA'S Agricultural Research Service: "Larger colonies eat crops such as soybeans, potatoes and other vegetables. They have...
...Left hand again, supple and rock steady: "18,000." His knees are slightly bent, his weight well forward. His voice as he calls off the ascending prices is clear and controlled, the even numbers chanted a couple of notes higher than the odd. There is no trace of strain. He can keep the bidding on this early American cherry oxbow chest spinning in the air all morning. Withington is 68, merely mellow for the antiques dodge, a country dance in which the old outfoot the young because they have had time to learn a trade whose secret is endless learning...
...replacements are relatively inexperienced, they protectively, and prudently, tend to space out aircraft even beyond the recently tightened requirements, slowing movement. "The skies aren't crowded," insists William B. Cotton, manager of United's air-traffic system. "It's the air-traffic-control system that's crowded." The strain was compounded last week when 34 of the 238 air-traffic controllers at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Center at Palmdale were suspended from radar duty pending a probe of alleged off-duty drug...
...strain on BankAmerica and banks in the Southwest, experts see no significant threat of failures that would overwhelm the FDIC. The agency's bailout fund, now more than $18 billion, has grown every year recently despite a surge in bank failures. Profits in the overall banking industry are growing at an estimated 10% or better annually, and last week four of the major New York City institutions reported robust quarterly earnings. Along with the painful contraction taking place in the steel industry, the regional banking woes are the natural result of the ebb and flow of economic tides. While some...