Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only strain between college expansion and neighborhood citizens seems to be MIT's development of 11 acres of land on Mass Ave, midway between MIT and Central Square...
...there persist in America two vestigial strains of anti-Catholicism. One is the old and somewhat fading nativist variety -the sort that led the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in the past year to reaffirm its opinion that the Pope is the Antichrist. The second strain, considerably more disturbing be cause it is so much more "respectable," is the bigotry practiced by certain intellectuals, liberals, humanists and elitists...
...speech was one of the most important of his career, and he showed the strain. He looked pale, drawn and more nervous than usual, and with good reason. He knew he had to put the best possible face on what amounted to retreat. Because the Soviets had refused to back down, Carter was forced to rely on Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's private assurances that the troops would be used only for training purposes...
...Reshaping undergraduate education" also sets aside $7 million to hire more junior faculty in understaffed departments like Government and Economics. "It's for departments where the teaching resources are under greatest strain," Keller says. A decline in the graduate school population has aggravated the high student-teacher ratios in such departments...
...HARVARD DEFENSE--Joe Restic must be thanking God each night for his defensive stalwarts. Columbia and UMass totaled just 143 yards on the ground in the first two weeks. The backfield has played well coming up to stop the run, though the secondary did show some strain against UMass' Mike McEvilly and Kevin O'Connor...