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Is the silence a form of shunning Isikoff, a former long-time Post reporter who left the paper under strained circumstances?
Under this scenario, unified budget deficits emerge again in 2019-just as the Social Security and Medicare programs are being strained by the retiring baby boom generation.
The only criticism: Hiaasen "walks a fine line between satire and outrage, as well as another between the conventions of the thriller and the conventions of slapstick, and … toward the end matters get so frenetic that credulity is strained well past the snapping point" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ). (Read an interview with Hiaasen.)
As a result, NYPD radio communications became strained on most channels.
We are all acutely aware that our civil legal services delivery system is strained to the breaking point.