Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discovery, a group of French and Portuguese researchers announced a related finding. At a conference in Lisbon, Dr. Luc Montagnier of Paris' Pasteur Institute disclosed that his team too had found a missing-link virus, apparently closer to the simian virus than it is to the human AIDS strain. As in Essex's study, the new virus was found in the blood of West Africans -- in this case, two men from Guinea-Bissau, which borders Senegal. Both men, however, were suffering from the symptoms of AIDS. "It seems to be the same disease; there was nothing peculiar about their illness...
...then they returned to Cambridge--windy, slushy Cambridge, where muscles pull and tendons strain with the greatest of ease...
...system of choice according to grades--while undeniably a "fair" solution--would raise several objections, many of them by students enrolled in courses like Chem 20 or introductory Russian. Admittedly, this system could cause undue strain on long-standing guts...
...assistant dean of the college who started teaching at Harvard in 1965, Marquand says that he often finds students too wrapped up with their future plans. "In general, an anxiety about the future combined with academic anxiety and pressure" often puts too much strain on undergraduates, nothing that this particularly stresses freshmen and seniors. He says he refers about two students a week to UHS for professional counselling when their problems seem to be more serious...
...often have to answer for the sins of my generation," he said, adding that being considered a representative of upscale decadence is sometimes a strain. "I had a reporter follow me into the bathroom to see if I was snorting cocaine. So I asked her if she had any," McInerney said...