Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relationship" lasted only as long as it took for me to realize that, as much as I liked the sound of our conversations, I didn't really like having them. So we stopped, and at about that time I came across someone with whom interacting put a little less strain on my psyche. He liked snuggling and Snoopy. I shifted into domestic mode, but miscalculated...
...strain to write something like this--andto keep it true--without using a completely cheesyand/or completely condescending topic as a crutch...
...while another said militia groups are simply a "neighborhood watch." Law enforcement officials, who also testified, strongly disagreed,describing militiamen as "disturbing and dangerous aggressors." Senators were also skeptical. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said most militia groups share two fundamental beliefs: fear of government and "a deep strain of racism and anti-Semitism." Dressed in camouflage, former Michigan militia leader Nathan Olson had several testy exchanges with Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.), at one point claiming the Senate represented corruption, and later saying that the federal government is too intrusive and "needs a good spanking to make it behave...
Responding to Congressional pressure, the Labor Department has decided not to issue any rules onrepetitive strain injuries, the painful symptoms often attributed to workranging from chicken-plucking to word-processing. In their push to reduce government regulations, Republican lawmakers have argued againstsetting any RSI standards. Although President Clinton recently vetoed a GOP bill that included a provision blocking the creation of RSI rules, Labor Department officials said that the current climate on Capital Hill made it too difficult to set any meaningful regulations. Department figures say that a variety of musculoskeletal disorders afflict over 700,000 people each year...
Thus armed, Clinton will run for re-election against the Republican Congress, Truman style. Truman ran against the "do-nothing" 80th Congress. Clinton will run against the "mean-spirited" 104th. His promise-to preserve the basic structure and existing subsidies of the welfare state-is a pure strain of what political analyst Kevin Phillips once termed reactionary liberalism...