Word: strains
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...Dreyfus dilemma is shared by many of his fellow Governors, especially in states that have adopted strong tax limitation measures. After the 1978 passage of California's Proposition 13, which slashed property levies by 57%, tax-cut fever spread across the nation like an exotic strain of flu. Yet state officials, who only a year or two ago were burning with the fever, now find themselves trying to balance their budgets, keep from raising taxes, and avoid cutting back on services - all at the same time. Even where there have not been moves to limit taxes, the Reagan Administration...
Some crack under the strain...
...contrast, Weiner testified that when Glicklich first came to UHS, she seemed emotionally stable and capable of handling the mental strain of her graduate courses. "Gena was engrossed in her studies. She expressed delight at being at Harvard and returning for her degree," Weiner said yesterday...
They include the state, which has usurped most of the capital-accumulating and distributing functions of the old industrial upper class, the decline of distinguished families like the Adamses, and a sustained attack on worldly success by novelists and intellectuals. "Antisuccess," he says, "has been perhaps the strongest strain in American literature of the past half-century. And to be against success is to put ambition itself in grave doubt...
...fact, if it weren't for Laborit's commentary, Mon Oncle would be a trifle of a film; a sweet, melodramatic little story. But, thanks to the good doctor, Resnais doesn't have to rely on a compelling plot or intriguing characters to hold our attention. We needn't strain ourselves looking for clues to motivations, we needn't ponder the out-come of events. Laborit knows all, tells all. Resnais displays his utter confidence in Laborit's theories when he has his actors don white rat heads to walk through some of their scenes. The director's joke couldn...