Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conflicting goals continue to strain U.S.-Israeli ties...
...teams which generate the most income for the university. These teams are usually the track, football and basketball teams. Some university coaches, like the coaches in the National Basketball Association, have begun to wonder if the color of the teams has begun to affect attendance and put an undue strain on the loyalty of alumni. Many coaches would not mind ending the "overrepresentation" of Black athletes in intercollegiate athletics--provided of course that other coaches would not be tempted to recruit and use them...
Other interested parties write with an eye towards relieving Harvard of some of its financial resources. One gentleman asked for one million dollars to collect butterflies He adds, "You're a big, strong University, you can could stand the strain of lowering one million dollars down here [Although] ropes ought creak a bit, sweat might...
...colonial regime. Attenborough ignores the Gandhi who while a young man in England dabbled in the arts and pastimes of Western civilization and then underwent the spiritual transformation that turned him into a saint. The omission is a reasonable one, for to make a movie about this Gandhi might strain the medium or simply fail. Spiritual pilgramages are rarely short and allow little abbreviation for the sake of depiction. They are also difficult...
This doube has served to underline other tensions within Israel. The settlements that Begin continues to create in the occupied territories are like needles in a collective Israeli flesh. Each new settlement puts greater strain on Jewish-Arab relations. As tempers flare, the government feels forced to take security measures. Arab mayors who sympathize with the Palestinian cause are fired, schools are closed when students voice their discontent and the homes of Arabs believed to be friendly toward the PLO are torn to the ground. Many Jews recognize these injustices. So Israeli society is becoming divided between those whose anti...