Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is also a strain of Republican thinking that says courting the charge of obstructionism is a risk worth taking. Gingrich is satisfied that the crime-bill fight left an impression the President had triumphed with a bill that smelled of pork. And via his much faxed newsletter, party strategist William Kristol has been urging that obstructionism in the name of image- building is no vice. A party that opposes the President unyieldingly, he reasons, gets a nice, sharp profile...
...children of Cincinnati suffered an epidemic of pertussis (whooping cough) last year. There were 352 cases (none fatal), compared with 542 cases in the 13 years from 1979 to 1992. The alarming part was that most of the children had been properly vaccinated, suggesting that an unusually hardy strain of the pertussis bacterium might be emerging. Another disturbing statistic: there were more than 6,500 cases nationwide, the largest number in more than 26 years...
...Army lab in Frederick, Maryland, faced a terrifying situation in 1989 when imported monkeys started dying from a strain of the Ebola virus. After destroying 500 monkeys and quarantining the lab and everyone in it, officials found that this particular strain was harmless to humans. But the episode was dramatic enough to inspire an article in the New Yorker magazine -- now expanded into a soon-to-be released book called The Hot Zone -- and work on two competing movies (one of which seems to have collapsed before production...
...lethal injection, and the cadavers were place in plastic bags for disposal. Before the building was boarded up, the Army sterilized every square inch of the interior. Dcotors monitored employees and Army ( personnel who had been exposed to monkey blood. Eventually it became appparent that the Ebola Zaire strain at Reston was harmless to humans. Yet the virus is considered to be a continuing menace. "A tiny change in its genetic code," Preston writes, "and it might zoom through the human race...
Behind Foster's relentless perfectionism is a surprising strain of insecurity. He knows that in his fickle industry complacency can quickly lead to a fall from the charts. "I always work under the assumption that my latest hit is my last," says the producer. "So I Swear is my last hit." Maybe so, but not many people in the music business would...