Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will give these groups supple-mental funding so they can put on an event without financial strain," Weinberg said. "It opens up [funding] to groups not currently served by our grants process...
...model Christian--humble, God-fearing and wholly concerned for his fellow man--yet Peninsula castigates his compassionate oratory as "dron[ing] on endlessly about...well, nothing." It is also not surprising that Peninsula cites two of the most renowned Jewish professors on campus for moral corruption; an anti-Semitic strain runs through all its rhetoric. Dershowitz, whom Peninsula deems "a man without honor," could not be a more honorable individual in his apolitical dedication to the preservation of civil liberties. And Gould, whose specialty is the cross-pollination of geological and evolutionary theory, rather than being "a tireless advocate...
Then, about midmorning, I started having some doubts. Maybe that wasn't Elizabeth Dole. Maybe I'd fallen asleep while watching the Tonight Show and dreamed that Elizabeth Dole, snapping under the strain of having remained that focused for that long, had donated 38 ladylike suits to Goodwill Industries and become an outlaw biker. Maybe I was suffering from what my mother used to call an overactive imagination...
...highs last week, confounding expectations that a serious stock-market correction was at hand. The flow of money into mutual funds this year is torrential, and has already set an annual record. But Fidelity, the biggest fund company of all, known for its arrogance and aggressiveness, is under unprecedented strain. Some of its biggest funds are lagging behind the benchmark S&P index not only this year but over the past three years as well. Investors are wondering, Is it just a bad patch, or are the company's glory days of whipping the industry gone for good...
Leigh denies an explicit strain of autobiography in Secrets & Lies. He does say, "There are people close to me, whom I can't talk about, who have had adoption-related experiences. I also had a notion to do something with a generation of black people who are growing up and moving on. And we had some research about black babies born to white women in the '50s and '60s. But did I know the story? No. Those are the sorts of things one discovers by making the film...