Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast pace of the first mile may also have placed an extra strain on the Harvard runners. On the other hand, it created just as much of a challenge to the competition. "I think we just have to give Dartmouth credit--they are a strong team and they ran pretty hard," McCurdy conceded...
...other hand, it might lead to disaster. This presumption seems ludicrous since the world has been losing species for millions of years. Human beings may have increased the pace of species elimination, yet with a few million still extant, the disappearance of more each century should hardly strain the ecosystem...
...latest import spree will further strain Soviet finances. The country's trade deficit with the West-about $2.7 billion in the first quarter alone-is swelling at a record pace. Every dollar spent on grain is one less that can be used for badly needed high-technology goods, including computers and oil-drilling equipment...
...homosexual (James Coco) and a wealthy woman desperately afraid of aging (Joan Hackett). They are all self-pitiers and nonstop talkers, mostly in a manner that might be called show-biz fizz, a stylization that works all right for Simon onstage, but seems on the naturalistic screen an inhuman strain. This is especially so since most of his zingers are not as funny as the writer thinks they are and distinctly not worth the body English the players put on them. They're always winding up as if they were about to deliver a high, hard one, only...
...Corporation's abstention on a measure at Dow Chemical Company that would have ended the firm's continued production of ingredients of the disputed "agent orange" also "caused strain" between ACSR and Corporation members because the ACSR approved the measure unanimously, Waldman said. However, he added that the issue might not come up again with the almost entirelty new cast of characters on the committee