Word: strainings
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...lowlier Scottish teams is a running riot of flying teacups, brawls and spats over petty cash. Such revelations as there are in The Boss are more storms in teacups. Ferguson's tendency to steer transfer-seeking players toward his son Jason's soccer agency seems a relatively mild strain of nepotism for the modern game. And news that Ferguson tried to cobble together a consortium to buy the club to stave off a bid by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB will likely cement him more strongly still in the hearts of the estimated 50 million Manchester United fans worldwide...
...would have to work a minimum number of hours to keep receiving benefits; drug and alcohol rehabilitation, childcare and other programs would be available in the remaining time. This program is a positive step, but funding should come from the federal government so as not to cause additional financial strain on states. Despite the promise of this program, Congress must ensure that these newly employed workers no longer live in poverty; respectable salaries and prospects for advancement must be available...
...claiming eminent domain, the city could seize the property—but would have to pay the University market value for it, which would be a major strain on a city facing a tight budget...
...engineers patch runways and refurbish rusty lighting and communications deep inside the tiny republic of Kyrgyzstan, tucked amid the mountains in what used to be the Soviet Union's southeast corner. Two weeks ago, the first U.S. warplanes - six Marine F-18 fighter-bombers - moved in, relieving the strain on Navy pilots stretching 600 miles from carriers in the Arabian...
...Americans Sill Don't Feel at Home" (Warner; May) by syndicated columnist Deborah Mathis, whose work appears in USA Today. "Forty years after the civil rights movement, not only does racism still exist but it's become even more insidious for having gone underground, argues Mathis. This more virulent strain of discrimination, less blatant, and therefore harder to confront, pervades American society to the extent that black Americans feel defensive and uncomfortable in their own country...