Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary-General met separately each day with Parsons and Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Enrique Ros in his 38th-floor U.N. suite. As time went on, the Peruvian-born diplomat played an increasingly active part, sometimes suggesting directly ideas of his own. He remained pleasant and courteous, but the strain began to show: his color was gray, his eyes were hollow behind his glasses, and he stooped as he walked...
...sharecroppers to acquire plots of up to 17 acres from their landlords. The suspension, for one growing season (a year for cotton, three to four years for sugar cane), was aimed at ensuring high production of two of the country's leading exports at a time of economic strain. But in a surprise move, D'Aubuisson's coalition broadened the exemption to include grain and cattle land as well...
...According to some projections, the Social Security taxes that those two workers and their employers would have to pay to support one retired person could drain away 25% of American payrolls. That would not only put an all but unbearable strain on the 21st century economy, but could provoke a tax rebellion among the young. Warns Michael J. Boskin, an economist and Social Security expert at Stanford University: "This could cause the greatest polarization in the U.S. since the Civil War. It would be age warfare...
...personal strain eventually forced Burke abandon her congressional post. When her daughter entered first grade and could no longer make the trip to and from the capital. Burke returned to California and state politics Back home, she encountered a general surge of conservatism, per sonified by Howard M. Jarvis and his successful campaign for the tax-slashing Proposition 13. The controversial Bakke affirmative action debate stirred widespread racism, as did political confrontations over busing and integration in L.A. Burke opposed George "Duke" Deukmejian in the 1978 attorney general's race and lost in a campaign her supporters charged had been...
...Barrett labels nonwhite indigenous churches. Including Africans not tied to Western missions, these groups by the year 2000 will number 154 million. The biggest distinct category of Protestants today does not consist of traditional Reformation groups, such as the Lutherans, but the Pentecostalists-at 51 million strong, a leading strain of the worldwide Evangelical movement. In addition, 11 million members of more traditional denominations follow Pentecostal practices. Barrett's astounding conclusion: the Evangelicals, taken all together, today command a healthy majority of Protestants in the world (157 million) as well as in the U.S. (59 million...