Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They have claimed in briefs and position papers that Gulf's payments to Portugal ease the strain on Portugal's military budget and provide the Portuguese government with an important source of foreign exchange currency...
Many of these institutions have fallen apart. The few that are still around find themselves so much under stress and strain that the original notions that were there that tended to inspire people about what could be new and creative in research and in teaching is being lost as the institution bears down to pull it back to the center and toward orthodoxy
Earlier in the week, a smiling Bhutto had bounded into the restaurant of the Intercontinental Hotel in Rawalpindi to welcome Wali Khan to the city. After three days of talks, the two men reached an agreement that will ease the strain-at least temporarily-on the tenuous unity of Pakistan's four remaining provinces, including Wali's strongholds of Baluchistan and Northwest Frontier...
...find a male chauvinist worthy of her and bear his children, the more the better. A woman is allowed to work, but a career is clearly an unsatisfactory alternative to marriage, unhappy or not. An aggressive woman district attorney, beset by a number of personal conflicts, cracked under the strain of a cross-examination she was conducting on a recent episode of CBS's The Secret Storm. "What's she going to be like after this?" her son asked his girl friend at the local health-food restaurant. "Her memory ." As any veteran viewer could have told...
...Balkans are still the powder keg of Europe, Macedonia may well be the fuse. The issue that could provide the spark is a century-old controversy over whether the Macedonians are a distinct strain of southern Slavs entitled to an autonomous republic within Yugoslavia, or whether they are Bulgars and should be part of Bulgaria. Bulgaria pressed its claim that the Macedonians are really Bulgars until last year, when Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev visited Sofia. After that, the Bulgarians suddenly softened their propaganda attacks against Yugoslavia over the issue...