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...FORTUNE 500 companies now have some sort of stress-management program. Many are restricted to top executives, though studies have shown that the most stressed workers are in middle management. In addition to facing the pressures of climbing the corporate ladder, these workers are caught in a perilous bind: lots of responsibility but little control. Those who have surmounted these obstacles and made it to the top "have the fewest problems," says Dr. Gilbeart Ceilings, corporate medical director of New York Telephone...
...help industry prepare itself for the changes it must face in the New Economy would be to bring that deficit down so that long-term interest rates, now hovering around 12%, can fall. If rates do not drop, the recovery may stall. That puts Congress in a bind. To provide much needed funds for education and training, it will have to cut other spending or raise taxes or both...
Although all three acknowledge that getting along together on a team has been a major part of their Harvard experience. Grossman probably has the strongest sense of the ties that bind the trio...
...Life in Unionville, Conn., sent in $278,000 that its 200 members had set aside for the construction of a new chapel. Patricia Bear, 52, a divorcee who lives in a mobile home in Denison, Texas, is out $46,000. Says she: "I'm in a terrible financial bind. I sent them my life savings, but evidently they are a bunch of crooks...
...rambling interview published in the mass-circulation Buenos Aires Clarin, Galtieri revealed just how I little he understood U.S. and British attitudes prior to the invasion. Blind to the close ties that bind the U.S. and Britain, Galtieri had managed to convince himself that his cordial relations with the Reagan Administration meant that the U.S. would remain neutral. "I was North America's pampered child," Galtieri said. He also admitted that "we would never have invaded" if he had known that the U.S. would eventually give logistical support to the British forces after the failure of Secretary of State...