Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...falls under the category of afflictions known as "Repetitive Strain Injuries," according to literature provided by University Health Services...
Repetitive strain injuries are caused by engaging in repeated tasks (such as typing), using awkward or fixed postures and failing to schedule sufficient rest time during such activities...
...many schools feel that they must send a letter to the parents of first-years saying blocking group negotiations "can strain the interpersonal skills of the most sophisticated undergraduate"? It shouldn't even be necessary to take such a measure. The letter continues to say that this decision is expected to be "even more consuming than...the choice of Concentration." Sophomore year sounds...
...distinct way "Lady Windemere's Fan" does much to complicate this picture. One strain throughout the play ruthlessly satirizes the double standards for sexual activity applied to men versus women, but another takes a genuinely bitter look at the damning effects that even the slightest hint of impropriety could have on one's social viability...
...White House speechwriter, Buchanan was a kind of in-house agent provocateur, seeking to move Nixon away from the moderate center. His mission, then as now, was to make conservatism the dominant strain of the Republican Party. Buchanan sought to capture George Wallace's constituency for the Republican Party. As early as 1970, he was advising Nixon to exploit the roiling economic anxieties of the middle class for political gain, the same voters to whom he is singing his siren song now. "We should aim our strategy primarily at disaffected Democrats, at blue-collar workers, and at working-class ethnics...