Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days after the Penn-Cornell game, 40 players on the Quaker football team came down with symptoms of nausea similar to those suffered by their fans. The incident put a strain on the team, which was preparing for a game at Bucknell. Twenty of the sick players made the trip, but complained of fatigue and dizziness the night before the game...
...with considerable grace ^ under pressure. On Saturday, the last day of his testimony, Bork talked about how serving on the high court would be an "intellectual feast," and how he wanted to leave a "reputation as a judge who understood constitutional governance." There was one moment, however, when the strain seemed to affect him. After Senator Leahy took the judge to task for never doing pro bono work during his years as an attorney, Republican Gordon Humphrey retorted that Bork had given up an extremely lucrative private practice to pursue teaching and Government service. Leahy then noted that...
...nonagricultural work force was employed in manufacturing; that proportion is now down to 19%. But even office workers face health-related uncertainties, particularly in the age of widespread computerization. Some employees who sit in front of video-display terminals all day complain of neck and shoulder soreness and eye-strain; they may also worry about possible long-term effects on their sight. More and more companies are mandating regular breaks for VDT workers and paying for periodic eye examinations...
...clock was stopped, and the two sides, tantalizingly close to an agreement, went on talking. Finally, after a 28-hour marathon bargaining session that ended about 60 hours beyond the original strike deadline, settlement came on Thursday morning. U.A.W. President Owen Bieber was not around for the handshakes; the strain of the negotiations had sent him to a Detroit hospital on Tuesday night with stomach pains. But he kept in touch with the talks by phone, and his deputy, U.A.W. Vice President Stephen Yokich, proclaimed the union's view of the outcome. "We have a good agreement," he said. "Truly...
Disturbing new evidence emerged last week that Strobel had released altered bacteria into the environment prior to his experiment with the elms. In an Aug. 10 letter to the EPA, Strobel admitted he had released a "new strain of Rhizobium meliloti . . . in South Dakota, Montana, California and Nebraska in 1983-84." The Rhizobium had been altered to enhance nitrogen fixation in alfalfa plants. Though it is not yet clear that those experiments violated regulations in force at the time, they are under investigation by Montana State...