Word: strainful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fare battles will put new strain on an already beleaguered industry. The twelve major U.S. airlines suffered operating losses of $158 million during the final quarter of 1985, compared with a profit of $347 million during the last three months...
...every issue of concern to said community? We could, any one of us who presented papers, have selected Farrakhan as a topic but we did not, for whatever reasons; we also did not address other equally critical problems (such as the alarming rise of teenage mothers, with the attendant strain on the Black community and long-range disastrous effects for the parties involved). There are many, many crucial issues facing the Black community today, and I quite frankly think it unreasonable to expect a one-day conference to cover, in whole or in part, any great number of them...
...come up with A Good Explanation, a minute-by- minute recounting of how things might have gone wrong. Sample entry: "8:57 p.m. Every person in Queens between the ages of 14 and 36 gets out of the shower and turns on a blow-dryer. This places an enormous strain on the power reserves of the system." The author likes to convey the impression that he is a serious, high-minded fellow who is simply trying to turn the dross of reality into art. As he says of himself in a postscript to What the Dog Did, "Any experience that...
...weeks ago, UMD was 24-7-1 and the second-ranked squad in the nation. But the emotional strain on the team, to say nothing of the physical loss of the center of the highest scoring line in college hockey (along with wings Skeeter Moore and Brett Hull) have taken their toll...
...sexual repression are undergoing attack. The sex-crime rate has soared, particularly cases of rape, which is sometimes defined to include simple seduction. Divorce is also up, and the New China News Agency reports that "disharmonious sexual life arising from a lack of sexual knowledge" is now placing great strain on many families...