Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford's repeated greetings, taped earlier at a factory gate by NBC Radio Newsman David Rush, brought tears of laughter to his weary listeners. As the campaign nears its close, strain is beginning to show. Deprived of sleep and laundry service, herded around by Secret Service agents and local police, forced to hear the same basic speech over and over, the boys and girls* on the bus are responding with mirth and mischief...
...diplomatic establishment which has to change traditional attitudes. The Lockheed scandal presented dilemmas for the Congress as well. The Senate Subcommittee, which I chaired, was charged with investigating the global role of multinational corporations and its impact on our foreign policy. Lockheed's misconduct, if revealed, might severely strain relations with Japan. Yet, Lockheed's pay-offs, and those of Northrop, Exxon, Gulf and others, convinced the subcommittee that legislation was essential if the wrongs we discovered were to be effectively inhibited. In order to provide a basis and secure the necessary support for legislation, the subcommittee concluded...
...argument was clear: a similar survey of deaths among the elderly who had, say, just drunk coffee might well have shown a higher mortality rate. Nonetheless, even doctors sympathetic to the flu program warned elderly people with heart or other chronic diseases to be wary of the stress and strain of getting shots at public clinics...
Compared to Harvard, Brown is relatively weak financially; its $100 million endowment is roughly equal to the interest on Harvard's endowment in one year. Fiscal strain is in evidence all around the campus; one calculus instructor complains of 50-student section meetings and "very poorly maintained classrooms," both during and after the service workers' strike...
Brain Drain Gnat Strain...