Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the financial peril did not destroy any programs entirely, the strain forced many committees to campaign almost exclusively on their own for funds. Marx said many of the larger committees raised up to 90 percent of their own operating costs last year...
...defiance campaign" but has been unable to put together a sustained strategy of mass civil disobedience that could successfully challenge the government's power. If thousands of blacks staged sit-ins, walk-ins and swim-ins at segregated institutions every day for months, the system could crack under the strain...
...heard it right away. The Stones still have the stamina, but there's always at least a hint of strain in the music too, a self-consciousness about the energy, as if they were the oldest guys at the gym and trying to look good on the Nautilus. Rock 'n' roll may be their life -- and their business. It may come naturally to them still, but it sure doesn't come easy. That's what's different. That old winning smugness -- their magisterial self-assurance -- is gone. There's a lot of sweat in these songs...
...Bulgaria tinker with old formulas in hopes they can stave off a reckoning with the new. Only Rumania, under the tyrannosaurus-like leadership of Nicolae Ceausescu, stubbornly pursues the Stalinist agenda without obstruction. As each country feels its way through this difficult period, the competing ambitions are putting considerable strain on the bloc...
...electoral achievement was spiced by a titillating sideshow. Among the candidates was Raquel Blandon, President Cerezo's wife. Although the Cerezos have discreetly been maintaining separate residences for more than a year, Blandon's run for office put an added strain on their complicated domestic arrangement. Their marriage has reportedly been tested by Cerezo's much rumored dalliances with other women...