Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blessing was at least partly disguised, what with a string of recent defeats at the U.N. for U.S.-Israeli policy and much strain between Washington and Jerusalem about where to head next in the Middle East. After three sessions, the two leaders agreed that their primary goal should be to persuade Arab leaders to join Israel at a reconvened Geneva peace conference. That agreement was easy: there now seem to be no alternatives to Geneva anyway...
Leslie E. Thomas, manager of utilities for Buildings and Grounds, blamed the current rash of mechanical failures on the added strain of the Christmas shutdown and the new conservation measures that have reduced dormitory room temperatures to 65 degrees at night...
Managing a modern corporation has put an increasing strain on the time, skills and knowledge of the chief executive. As corporate complexities multiply, more companies are turning to a management setup that attempts to broaden corporate leadership by drastically altering the traditional chain of command. Instead of one man at the pinnacle, the companies are creating the so-called "office of the chairman," which is composed of three, four or even five top officers who share responsibility for running the company and transform the old method of solitary decision making into a kind of group think. Last week the idea...
...unravel that alphabet soup, Author-Physician Michael Crichton (The Great Train Robbery, The Andromeda Strain) recently looked over some back issues of the New England Journal of Medicine. Crichton, who wrote novels even during his days at Harvard Medical School (class of 1969), was appalled by what he read. The style, he reported in the Journal, was "as dense, impressive and forbidding as possible." Examples...
...past ten years, "and I ignored the page. Most of my life I am Bill Horton." Sometimes this goes beyond a joke. David Rounds, who played a suspected child molester, Phil Donnelley, on Love of Life for two years, suffered a hiatal hernia brought on by the strain of acting a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown...