Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most striking things about the healthy survivors is that after the initial drop, their CD4 count stabilizes -- usually above 500. Assaulted but not overwhelmed, they no longer lose any ground against HIV. One possible explanation is that these men were exposed to a strain of the virus that is naturally weaker than most. The immune system subdues the less malevolent virus, allowing the body to fend off any new attacks by more dangerous strains. In the same way, English milkmaids who suffered from cowpox in the 18th century developed an immunity to the disease that also protected them against...
...bulky plot of the novel and pares it down to two actors who alternate personalities and sexes with cheerless machination in a game of sex and vengeance. Winsome Brown as the Marchioness, Merteuil, plays her role with bloodthirsty relish. Her obvious confidence and professionalism enable her to add the strain of comic self-consciousness that brings the play to life. Brown moves in tightening circles around Tom Hopkins as Valmont, the lethargic predator turned prey. Hopkins' Valmont is charming and at times strikingly perverse. On the other hand, the interaction between these two is oddly flattened, and the seductive tension...
...could be used to match the strain of anthrax found with a sample from the military base, if the Russian government is willing to provide...
According to the court documents, the injury caused misaligned vertebrae or strain in McKay's neck and back. The suit states that she "required extensive treatment" and the injury "caused her great pain and suffering...
...STRAIN OF THE AIDS VIRUS EMERGED, threatening to ravage the world like its better-known cousin? That looked possible last summer, when scientists at an international AIDS conference reported on patients who had strikingly low levels of CD4 cells -- the same immune-system cells that are destroyed in AIDS sufferers -- but were not infected by the HIV virus...