Word: straining
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Eric Schuler, a freshman laboring under the strain of the track team's frenetic schedule, posted a time in the 3000 meters 12 seconds off his best, and did not qualify...
...four hours of mechanical torture does not turn us into Lears. Even if we strain, we can't hear the hoofbeats of the Apocalypse galloping closer. Nor do we realize, like Lear, that life and space and time will not stand still while we crawl in the maddening mud of self-pity. Instead, this Lear alienates us, erects a barrier between the stage and the audience, makes us struggle to stay in our seats. We throw up our hands. We do not want to watch TV, to see the results of the New Hampshire primary or an Ajax commercial...
This is a terrifying book, one that everybody who plans to vote for Jimmy Carter should be force-fed before he pulls the lever. The authors' conclusions strain the obvious ("The reality is that both parents 'shape' Jimmy Carter, just as most of us are influenced by both mother and father"), but what lies between the lines is genuinely scary. "We believe that Carter really believes in his own promises, and his desire to bring compassion and justice to the victims of the sinful world," Mazlish and Diamond conclude; it's just that the angels watching over the Oval Office...
...volunteer army also frustrates the aspirations of the poor and disprivileged in another way as well; the budgetary strain imposed upon the federal government by the costs of economic incentives to keep people in the armed forces ultimately leads to cutbacks or curtailments of social programs for the needy. Institution of the draft would allow the current force levels to be maintained at a fraction of their present cost in wages and benefits. The funds that would be released by these savings could go towards programs that would, say, create more jobs for the unemployed youth in our cities...
...rising interest costs, which the Federal Reserve pushed up again last week by raising the rate it charges member banks to 13%, have not slowed consumer spending. Moreover, mild winter weather has made it easier to go shopping and eased the strain on home heating budgets. This has helped to fatten consumer pocketbooks, enabling people to keep on spending though wages have not kept pace with inflation...