Word: strains
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...vice versa, makes the continued administrative separation of residential services cumbersome and illogical; (2) the savings that can be achieved by the changes we recommend appear to be substantial, and this is not a time to lose sight of important economies: (3) Radcliffe finances are under a severe strain; in the absence of some such arrangement with Harvard as those proposed below, Radcliffe fund raising at a far higher level than previously would be required in the immediate future; (4) the continuing uncertainty of the present situation is upsetting and difficult for the Radcliffe staff and could create major replacement...
...recovery operations stretched to 15 months-the longest and costliest in mining history-some of the widows sought an end to the strain of wondering "when the phone will ring to say they've found him." Worried that their husbands' bodies had been incinerated in the intense fires of the explosions, and discouraged by Consolidation Coal Co.'s reports that recovery could stretch over years, they agreed to a plan that would seal off from commercial production the portion of the mine containing the most inaccessible bodies. That area would become a cemetery, and a monument...
...earn Richard Nixon an F from the voters. It flies in the face of just about everything that economists have believed, but it describes a grim fact of life in the U.S. today. Unexplainable by the philosophy of Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes or even Milton Friedman, a new strain of inflation has become a hard reality for millions of Americans. So far, it has proved stubbornly resistant to the classic remedy of business slowdown that has cured inflation in the past. To rescue the nation from it, the Nixon Administration may have to make some imaginative and unorthodox...
...also remember, however, the day I came home crying because fourth-grade classmate Randy Albright had told me there was no Santa Claus. He tried to be logical and endeavored to strain the credibility of it all. Randy argued that chimneys and omnipresence and other things that I answered to, but not very well. Then a week later, my father sat down with me and explained to me that there was indeed no Santa. It had just been a game. That Christmas Eve I took my first sleeping pill. I didn't bother pecking out the window before getting...
...Then they inserted into the remaining cell membrane a nucleus and cytoplasm that had been similarly removed from other cells. In more than 70% of their attempts, the transplant produced a completely viable new cellas long as the components used were taken from amoebae of the same strain. But when they tried the same reshuffling with parts from amoebae of different strains, the experiment failed in all but two of 434 tries...