Word: straining
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...goes in a desperate suburban world, where the filling station operator is only too happy to pick up an over used credit card and turn it in for the reward, where an IRS audit can strain a marriage to the breaking point, where a grandfather must move in with his daughter because grandma has decided that she is a lesbian. The riposte to this rich variety of nonsense is for Lange, Curtin and Saint James to stage a heist. They decide to make off with the day's receipts of a shopping center, which are being displayed...
Strauss and his fellow Bavarians have been pressing Bonn to build more of these camps to handle the immigrants as they arrive. The camps, built at federal expense, would reduce the financial strain on local governments. Last week the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) instead moved to slow the increasingly burdensome influx of foreigners by passing a tough new set of regulations on asylum applications. Asylum seekers will not be eligible for work permits during their first year in West Germany, nor will family-support payments be made unless asylum has been confirmed. Judicial procedures will be streamlined, so that...
Pressure from single-issue political groups was also a strain. "I regret even going to that gun thing," Dole says of his appearance before a New Hampshire gun owners' group, at which then Republican Candidate John Anderson was booed. "What I should have done, at least someone should have done it, was to get up and reprimand them for their treatment of Anderson. They were outright rude to Anderson because he had a different view . . . I resented, after I left, that sort of quizzing in public, trying to lock us in on every little detail that the National Rifle...
...future of Mission Innoculation depends on the proper diagnosis of American illnesses--and the CIA's strength at smuggling bacteria into Tehran. "We're working on a new strain of dysentery," agent Frank Snepp reported cheerfully. "It's called Ayatollah's Revenge...
...cocktail parties, singles bars and other stand-up affairs, be sure to circulate about the room. Prolonged standing in one place may not only be dull; it puts great pressure on the spine. Shifting the weight from one foot to the other also helps relieve the strain of standing in place. At a bar do what experienced patrons have long done: always keep a foot on the rail or a rung of the bar stool...