Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lawsuit will not strain the relationship between the University and the Rent Control Board, Mervis said...
...most of these planning problems are being solved. Only by acquiring additional computers can the University ease the strain on its system and reaffirm its commitment to computer literacy, a commitment begun with the Core computer requirement and continued by the recent approval of a computer science concentration. Hundreds of students have signed a petition calling for beefed--up computer facilities, not just for AM110 but for thesis writers, low priority users and students enrolled in other computer courses...
...Council--the Faculty's executive steering committee--offered two caveats to this endorsement, citing in a statement both the need for "a clearer definition of the ART's obligations to support non-professional student theatre at Harvard" and the "need to consider other FAS priorities and to avoid undue strain on FAS resources...
...fashionable that they have become a growth industry with companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange? Vaillant concludes flatly that they do not work in the long run, although he believes they may be useful in rescuing, however temporarily, a person who is about to collapse under the strain of his illness. Nor can a seriously ill alcoholic "will" himself to give up liquor...
Under the most trying circumstances, Child shows no sign of strain or temper. At 70, an unstooped 6 ft. 2 in., she strides and chops as energetically as the Smith College basketball player she once was-though to stay at 170 Ibs. she is a periodic Scarsdale Dieter. Out to stalk the wild mushroom, equipped with topee, stout stick, a yellow slicker and blue New Balance sneakers, she slogged through viscous mud that bogged down her party's four-wheel-drive Bronco, gathering a basketful of the yellow, peppery, precious ($8 per Ib.) chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius) that had been...