Word: strained
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...government says the money was siphoned from the hefty military aid that Washington gives Israel ($1.8 billion this year), and officials fear the scandal will further strain relations with the U.S. Others have called for air force chief Major General Avihu Bin-Nun's resignation. For now, that seems unlikely, especially given the gulf crisis. In an apologetic letter to his staff last week, Bin-Nun wrote, "I trusted Rami Dotan in exactly the same way that I would trust the aircraft technician from whom I receive a plane before a flight...
...opposite extreme, one need not strain for specimens of poor communication in everyday life. Like polluted air, it surrounds and encases us. I see it in the wording of informed-consent papers that patients are asked to sign before undergoing medical procedures. I see it in the small print of insurance policies or on the backs of airline tickets. I struggle over it in tax forms or information from government agencies. I agonize over it in the instructions that come with do-it-yourself kits. I strain to comprehend it when I stop to ask directions, or when I hear...
Before His Time--It seems that author Michael Crichton '64 is already making an impact on Harvard's Board of Overseers, to which he was elected last June. When the Board began discussing computer technology for the University last weekend, Crichton, who wrote the The Andromeda Strain, a novel about high-tech efforts to fight an extraterrestial microbe, was especially interested. According to another overseer, "There's nothing [being developed now] that wasn't in the The Andromeda Strain 25 years...
...executive John A. Armstrong '56 and Michael Crichton '64, author of the science fiction novel The Andromeda Strain, which described high-tech efforts to battle a mutating extraterrestrial virus, showed a particular interest in the use of computers for teaching, one overseer said...
...There's nothing [being developed now] that wasn't in The Andromeda Strain 25 years ago," said the overseer...