Word: strains
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...Australia's High Commissioner (in effect, Ambassador) in New Delhi, to his Foreign Ministry. Upton's report was leaked to a Canberra journalist and was published by the Melbourne Age, Australia's leading newspaper. The Australian government was deeply embarrassed by the disclosure, which threatened to strain relationships with New Delhi. But the Indian government has so far ignored the incident...
Moll also intends to compete on price, since the yearly cost at state-supported Santa Cruz is as low as $3,400 for Californians. Says he: "Any number of families will strain to get the money for Stanford or Harvard or perhaps Duke. I'm not certain that those families will strain as hard to get $8,500 or more for less prestigious private colleges such as Skidmore or Vanderbilt or Boston University - superb as those institutions are. Here sits a state university that feels like one of those private colleges, at a lower price...
...water, affected birds walk backward. Their wings droop, their legs drag, and they may become totally paralyzed within a few days. Poultrymen have developed vaccines against the more common forms of Newcastle, which was first recognized at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1926. Since then a more virulent strain has emerged. It was carried, Government officials suspect, by the rare tropical birds that are smuggled into the U.S., often by illicit drug dealers, and sold to eager buyers at fancy prices: up to $1,300 for a Moluccan cockatoo, or $8,000 for a hyacinthine macaw...
Possibly a mutant strain of a mink virus or the cat virus feline panleukopenia, parvovirus is spread through the feces of infected canines. The virus can remain infectious for months, and can be tracked long distances on the soles of shoes or by other means. The disease does not affect humans, but sniffing dogs can pick up the virus by ingesting less than one-thousandth of a gram of fecal material. Five to ten days after exposure, the dogs may become listless, then vomit and develop bloody diarrhea; they also lose their appetite. If the animal becomes dehydrated...
...been talks about selling the building on and off for as long as I can remember," John P. Reardon Jr. '60, Director of Athletics, said yesterday, citing the club's "unwielding size," and its "out of the way" location as reasons for the proposed sale. Inflation and the added strain of feeding women athletes made it economically unfeasible to continue offering training meals, he added...