Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong with the thrift industry? Instead of hitting bottom and starting back up, an estimated one-third of the 3,200 federally insured thrifts in the U.S. just keep falling deeper into the red. The problem is potentially grave, because the ballooning cost of rescuing the ailing thrifts could strain the Federal Government's insurance fund. Last week officials at the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, which guarantees deposits up to $100,000 and handles troubled thrifts, estimated that the deficit in its fund reached $11.6 billion last year, nearly double its 1986 level of $6.3 billion...
...Ligachev was behind the attack and reacted by stripping him of some of his powers over the Soviet press and television. Those powers were reportedly shifted to one of the Soviet leader's strongest backers in the Politburo, Alexander Yakovlev, 64. However, the Soviet leadership showed no sign of strain at the end of last week when Ligachev appeared with Gorbachev and other Politburo members in the Kremlin Palace for the traditional ceremony marking Lenin's birth date. A smiling Ligachev took his usual seat at Gorbachev's right, and the two chatted amicably...
...preoccupation -- as well as the thesis of her historical volumes -- is the random nature of history. Woe to the person who sees any order in the past; kaleidoscope is Claudia's favorite word. Effective enough at first, this aspect of Moon Tiger is overdrawn and finally tedious. A similar strain shows in what are by now familiar literary musings about the ancient stones and mysterious fossils around Lyme Regis. It is possible that Dorset should be cordoned off to novelists for a decade...
...patent office last week granted exclusive marketing rights to Harvard for a genetically altered strain of mice designed by Andrus Professor of Genetics Philip Leder '56. Although the new breed of mice was created for cancer research, the patent office's decision has come under attack by some members of Congress, who charge it has preempted congressional debate on the ethics of patenting animals...
...think it would be very upsetting and would put a strain on the summit if the Senate has not ratified the treaty by the time we go there," the president said during a question-and-answer session after his speech to the World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts...