Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...licked his lips. He sipped water. His ashen face looked aged. The strain was evident as Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita faced his challengers in the Diet. The embattled Japanese leader made a series of extraordinary admissions to a special session of the Diet budget committee. Last October Takeshita flatly denied any connection to the burgeoning scandal that has linked dozens of Japanese politicians and bureaucrats to a money-and-favor game played by the Recruit Co., a $3.25 billion information-and-real-estate conglomerate. But last week Takeshita conceded that over the years he and others close to him received...
...anti-drilling activists argue that the area is just too sensitive to stand the strain of oil production, even if a spill never occurs. A few roads and airstrips in this seemingly vast wilderness, they say, could cause permanent harm to the habitats of caribou, musk-oxen, polar bears, golden eagles and wolves. For evidence to back their argument, the preservationists point to Prudhoe Bay. The weight of trucks atop temporary roads has cut into the mat of vegetation that makes up the tundra, allowing sunlight to weaken the top layer of permafrost beneath. The result: ever deepening ruts that...
...apparent strain between Gorbachev and Castro is widely publicized in the United States as Gorbachev's appeal among even conservative U.S. policymakers broadens. The United States has gloatingly lauded the Soviet Union's recent elections, in which locally chosen politicians defeated many party officials, Many here see the Soviet "restructuring" as a challenge to open the Cuban dictatorship...
...convincing plot twists with slightly implausible characterizations. A middle-aged New York City adman named McGuire turns into a modified James Bond to investigate the disappearance of a headstrong son, a Harvard student who was mixed up with running guns to the I.R.A. McGuire's metamorphosis may strain credulity, but his motives are authentically rooted in strong parental emotions...
Considering that it represents a reversal of centuries of black subordination, the rise of the black manager has been accomplished with remarkably little upheaval. But not without some strain. African Americans who have risen through affirmative-action plans can face resentment from white underlings. Some white subordinates fret over whether black bosses will favor other blacks. And the stories are common among black managers of white employees who ceaselessly buck their authority or who go over their heads to complain to higher-placed whites...