Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat of food shortages, the other half of the divided country is bearing burdens of another sort. The army-backed federal government of President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan remains totally committed to keeping the Eastern wing from breaking away to establish Bangla Desh, an independent Bengal state. But the strain of the undertaking is overtaxing West Pakistan's resources and nerves. "This regime has East Pakistan stuck in its throat," says one American diplomat in the federal capital of Islamabad. "The army must either swallow it or cough...
...three-month-long Nile flood, when farming was at a standstill. Mendelssohn points out, however, that far fewer workers would be required when a pyramid was nearing completion. After that, none would be needed until the coming of the next pharaoh. No economy, he argues, could stand the strain of such a boom-bust employment pattern...
...real cause of the present strain is that the U.S. is confronting something totally new in the world: a mighty industrial economy that has been shaped by Oriental history and psychology. If Japan does not follow the gentlemanly trade rules, it is not because of simple greed but because it does not adhere to Western principles on much of anything. To outsiders the Japanese economy seems inscrutable in ways alternately amusing and shocking...
...does not really lecture; he preaches. He aims primarily at the spirit as opposed to the intellect or the emotions. There's a strain of the old-fashioned Baptist wailer in him, yet it has been disciplined so that he is never out of control. His speech is well-modulated and understated without lending the impression that he is holding anything back. His high regard for Elijah Muhammad is well-evident in his lecture style without becoming an affectation. He presents himself as Ali, and Elijah Muhammad is an integral component of that identity...
...rules committee of the Washington Superior Court Thursday refused a request by police chief Jerry V. Wilson to raise collateral from the customary $10 to $50. Wilson reportedly wanted to raise the collateral in order to further strain the bankrupt Mayday bail fund...