Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justice Department investigated her campaign finances for 22 months. The strain and time commitment required by the investigation, Ferraro says, were major factors in her decision not to run against incumbent Sen. Alfonse D'Amato...
...insurance and numerous benefits for the elderly. With each advance in medical technology, doctors and ethicists wrestle over how long people should be kept alive and how to ration health care between the young and the very old. And closest to home, many "sandwich" families will feel a terrible strain as they try to raise their children and sustain their parents on a squeezed household budget...
...they put him in sweaters in an effort to soften his intensity. For a while, Rather tried hard to be warm and homespun, his writing full of purple prose and corny puns. (Before the start of the Reykjavik summit, he announced, "Ready, set, Gorbachev.") Later he reverted, with equal strain, to a straitlaced, sober, almost glum delivery...
Meanwhile, physicians at the New Jersey University of Medicine and Dentistry last week reported the first case in the U.S. of infection by a second deadly AIDS virus, HIV-2. The strain was first discovered in West Africa in 1985; since then some 100 cases have turned up in Western Europe. The reason for concern: blood tests for HIV-1 do not always detect HIV-2, making it possible for the infection to slip through AIDS-screening procedures in blood banks...
...family at their 20-room home north of New York City and weekdays at a Manhattan apartment, just a two- block walk from his office. The fearsome raider is so shy that he is sometimes reluctant to brush off virtual strangers who approach him in public. While the strain of managing so many ventures clearly shows in his face, Icahn professes no interest in slowing down. Referring to his efforts to topple what he calls "arrogant, incompetent managements," he says, "There is a great fulfillment that you can do something about it. Also, you can make money doing...