Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practice in emergencies, though, OEP quickly showed the strain of its first days on the new job. Manpower was urgently needed, and was borrowed haphazardly from other Government agencies. Highly paid federal economists, HUD officials and even agriculture experts found themselves answering phones in regional offices. Nevertheless, OEP could not cope with the flood of queries. In the Washington headquarters a block from the White House, confusion was compounded as cameramen tangled lines with telephone installers...
...been seriously set back by an influx of 8,000,000 East Pakistani refugees. The cost of supporting them has already mounted to more than $300 million, of which other nations, led by the U.S., have contributed only $125 million. Two weeks ago, with India feeling the economic strain-and feeling increasingly isolated as well -New Delhi dispatched D.P. Dhar, former Indian ambassador to the Soviet Union, to Moscow. In less than 36 hours the treaty was put together. Dhar brought it back to New Delhi the day before Gromyko arrived...
...structure into effect anyway. But few executives believe that it would last for long. "Outside I.A.T.A., it is a gentlemen's agreement," says BOAC Canadian Marketing Manager Zachary Clark. "It would be hard to police, and the 'gentlemen' part would be put under a pretty severe strain...
...before ecology became fashionable, a Finnish mink breeder named Emil Hoglund began his drive to protect spotted cats. Finding a mutant female mink with pale brown spots on its white fur, he carefully bred it with a normal mink. After nine years of inbreeding, Hoglund had produced a new strain: a deeply spotted mink with a strong resemblance to the jaguar, which has been hunted to near extinction for its luxurious pelt. Manhattan furrier Reiss & Fabrizio has received the first of the "Fin-Jaguar" furs from the Danish firm Keppo, and has the coats on sale...
...theoretically, the international pitch standard. In Pittsburgh, though, the symphony raises the pitch to 442, half a notch higher than the New York Philharmonic's 441.5. In Berlin, the Radio Symphony Orchestra soars to 446, enough to make singers' eyes pop on a top note. If the strain proves too great, they could take refuge in Moscow, where orchestras revel in a plushy, warm tone achieved by a larynx-relaxing 435 cycles...