Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shamir's move jeopardized his fragile coalition with the rival Labor Party and threatened to strain relations with a Bush Administration eager to get peace talks under way. Charging that Likud had "put heavy handcuffs on the peace process," Finance Minister Shimon Peres fumed, "Shamir can agree to Sharon's dictates, but the Labor Party will not." Party politicians pressed their leaders to bolt the coalition and force new elections. But Labor's popular appeal is dwindling, so the party leadership is expected to give the wounded peace plan one more chance...
Matt's one drawback, particularly if you ask my mother, was that he was seriously involved in a long-term relationship from which he was unwilling to extricate himself. It was certainly a major drawback, and an important strain on our relationship...
...lists at child-care centers are routine. Many care facilities have marginal health and safety standards and are short of properly trained workers. The average cost for one year of care for a child is $3,000, which is beyond the reach of poor families and creates a financial strain for the middle class...
...father remained a loyal member of the party who spent years translating the works of Marx, Lenin and Mao from Chinese into Uighur. When thousands of China's intellectuals were forced out of the cities to work as peasants in the countryside, Wuer's father went willingly. The strain and exposure left his legs paralyzed for years afterward, but he neither complained nor criticized the party...
From the Baltic to the China Sea, people strain against the confines of the system, demanding a fair share in their own governance. -- Hard-liners take China's helm, but the old compact between the people and their leaders is shattered. -- Solidarity whips the Communist Party, causing a constitutional logjam. -- Wherever he turns, Gorbachev faces hard lessons and unhappy citizens...