Word: strains
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Relations between Somoza and the U.S. government are currently undergoing severe strain. The Guardia Nacional's indiscriminate use of terror in the countryside, where the FSLN has its strongest base of support, is proving an embarrassment to Carter's "human rights" stance. A report released by Amnesty International last August concluded that "instances of political imprisonment, denial of due process of law, use of torture and summary executions" were extensive. Last month the State Department decided to withhold $12 million in economic assistance, although Congress did approve $3.1 million in military aid to the regime (with the encouragement of professional...
...Honourable Schoolboy, arguably le Carre's best novel since The Spy Who Came In From the Cold landed him on the publisher's all-star team, carries that strain of realism to its logical and dramatic conclusion. Taking up where he left off in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre chronicles the efforts of a demoralized Secret Service to regain its reputation and, more important, its sense of self-respect, in the wake of its infiltration by a Soviet double agent. The task falls on the shoulders of George Smiley, typically a shrewd but atypically a paunchy and unglamorous secret...
...important step in this direction had already been taken last spring when scientists at the University of California in San Francisco succeeded in transplanting a rat insulin gene into the DNA of a laboratory strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli. The bug then multiplied into countless duplicate bacteria, each containing the insulin gene, but incapable of producing insulin. In the work announced last week, Microbiologist Herbert Boyer of the University of California, San Francisco, along with Biochemist Arthur Riggs of the City of Hope Medical Center near Los Angeles and Physiologist Wylie Vale of the Salk Institute in San Diego...
...time something like this has happened in our white community," says his wife. "Perhaps it's good for them to see. I'm watching Donald. 1 don't open up any subject if I see he wants to withdraw. So far he's showing no strain, but we haven't spoken about what's going to come at all, and we won't unless he needs to also If a it good does get thing to go emotional, if through. it But does we get cannot raw, see then things that...
...deserts?spread from California to India; the launching-pad set in Mobile, Ala., used in the film's climax is six times as large as Hollywood's biggest sound stage, Spielberg "was forever screwing up schedules like a whirlwind," says Melinda Dillon, the film's female lead, recalling the strain. "He worked all night, every night?catching a few hours' sleep when he could. He had his Winnebago trailer set up to screen films, and he was always running 2001, and when he got tired of that, he would run cartoons." null Truffaut, the French director whom Spielberg persuaded...