Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan was able to smooth this over, but his would-be successors promise no such balancing act. One broad strain of pragmatists and moderates would consolidate Reagan's gains and repair his excesses. They would compromise to reduce the deficit, raising taxes if necessary. They would try harder to reach an arms-control agreement with the Soviets, sacrificing if necessary Reagan's proposed Star Wars weaponry. They would not try to legislate morality...
Partly because of new events inaugurated for women-the cycling road races, the marathon, even synchronized swimming-the Games had a strong feminine strain. They also had an unavoidable American flavor. Two of the world's three best teams were missing, after all. The first American gold-medal volleyball team was thoroughly unbothered by the asterisk. Nationalism was rampant but ugliness restrained. The boxing mobs were as sour as the judging: it is probably too soon to tell Evander Holyfield, a U.S. light heavyweight disqualified for not pulling his punches, that in the end this heartache...
...once grand and grotesque, the straining faces of weight lifters tell what it means to compete all out. While Britain's Stephan Pinsent finished only eleventh in the 165-lb. class, no one who saw the strain etched on his face would question his Olympian effort. The audience at the Loyola Marymount University arena was a reverent one, quieting to a hush as the athletes approached a barbell, then exploding into tumult following an extraordinary feat. After Rumanian Nicu Vlad, 20, broke an Olympic record in the 198-lb. class with a 485-lb. clean and jerk, the crowd...
...joints, which are buried under layers of muscle, the knee is protected only by the kneecap and a thin layer of tissue. The knee bears great weights, helps propel and stop the body and acts as a shock absorber-and that is just normal wear. Many sports put added strain on the joint. The worst: football, basketball, skiing, soccer, weight lifting and wrestling. And a runner, says Dr. James Hill, co-director of sports medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, "takes an average of 1,000 to 1,200 steps a mile, with two to three times the body...
...monitor, as well as a cantilevered, tilting table that can hold a computer keyboard or serve as a writing surface. The columns can be placed anywhere. The computer disc drive goes in an upright console next to the chair. Diffrient maintains that "the energy you save by reducing the strain of holding yourself up and worrying about whether your back aches or your arms hurt is directly converted to the work at hand...