Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This new strain of talk radio, Nader maintains approvingly, "is the working people's medium. There's no ticket of admission. You only have to dial." Congressman Chester Atkins, a Massachusetts Democrat who was a chief target of pay-raise opponents, gamely praises the format as well. "Talk radio is in touch with the anger and hostility and frustrations that people feel with respect to government in their daily lives," he says...
...huge financial strain on my parents," Mulvehal says. "I had to stop taking lessons. We were more financially conscientious...
What gives the songs their staying power is their instant emotional familiarity, the way they seem to carry so much of Snow's emotional freight with no strain. The record's last song, Cardiac Arrest, is a kick, a stops-out rocker that dares to be a little goofy, that cuts the listener a little welcome slack. Even here, though, Snow is laughing at the expense of a mangled heart. The women Snow sings about put themselves at perpetual high risk. I'm Your Girl, the record's midpoint and one of its high points, sounds at first like another...
...These kids worked hard for this. There is some trauma--it is a difficult competition because it started back in October..." Forsgard said. "Then it's April when they find out and that's a lot of strain on anyone...
BUSINESS: The FSX jet puts more strain on U.S.-Japan ties...