Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peeved at Norman. Norman, for his part, has not many friendly things to say to Chelsea, who has shows up at the Thayer's summer home for Norman's birthday. One can believe that Chelsea would turn up for such an event, but it's a bit of a strain to imagine her bringing along her demind-boyfriend to be skewered by Norman's verbal parries. The dentist (Debney Coleman), incidentally, is the real McCoy; he wears a light blue cotton Suit, a white and blue plaid short and a dark solid tie. Now that is a dentist. What requires...
...people like Crandall, who are disabled but not in need of full-time nursing care, they fill the vital gap between neighborhood senior citizen centers, which are generally not equipped for the handicapped, and dreaded institutionalization. For families of the infirm elderly they offer welcome relief from the strain of providing full-time care for an ailing relative at home and from the guilt that often comes from banishing that person to a nursing home, perhaps prematurely. (An estimated 25% of nursing home residents do not need to be there.) "Our goal," says Jacqueline Falk, a day care administrator...
That reality is always personal and almost always lashed with a confusion of difficult emotions. Indeed, the psychological cost of joblessness is more hurtful to many victims than the strain of making financial ends meet. A few individuals, true enough, are so oddly disposed that they can take unemployment with upbeat nonchalance, making a lark of it or seizing the opportunity to switch careers. Still, Americans more typically take a cruel psychic bruising when they lose a job (never mind the cause). And if joblessness goes on for long, men and women of all ages, occupations and economic classes tend...
...that notion that keeps my strain of optimism running," he added...
There are fears that any new surge in interest rates, which many economists predict will occur perhaps as early as the summer, could eliminate one-third of the U.S. thrift industry. That would strain the Government's capacity to engineer the rescue mergers needed to absorb insolvent S and Ls. Says an official at the Federal Reserve: "If rates start to turn up again, then 1982 will be the crunch year. A lot of existing thrifts simply won't make...