Word: strainings
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...this strain of modesty - sometimes even false modesty - is becoming rarer and rarer in American life. Braggadocio and trash talk are the rule these days. Once upon a time an athlete who hit a homer to win the game in the bottom of the ninth would say, "Aw, I was just lucky to hit that curve." But Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath changed all that. With Ali's "I am the greatest" speeches and Joe Namath's confident predictions of victories, sports etiquette was altered forever. In the NBA finals, Shaq pounded his opponents in print as much...
...have to balance how much you want the University to grow,” Huidekoper says, noting that even during fiscal 2000, when the spending rate was only 3.97 percent, the University added 700 employees, creating a strain on the University’s infrastructure...
...don’t want to continue punishing students for a situation that is not their fault,” Mansfield says. “I’ve had to adjust my grades upward over the years, and the strain on my conscience has become too great...
...HONG KONG Bird Flu Hong Kong's government ordered the "depopulation" of the territory's estimated 1.2 million poultry as a new and highly virulent strain of avian flu was discovered. All market poultry stalls were shut down, and imports of live birds from China were halted. The new H5N1 virus is genetically different from the virus that led to the slaughter of all Hong Kong's poultry - and six human deaths...
...government holding up under the strain - the Albanian parties can't be happy about the renewed offensive...