Word: burnouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former Undergraduate Council presidential candidate surprised her running mate two weeks ago when she decided to drop out of the race, but she says she wanted to protect herself from the campus plague. Burnout...
...While he says it is difficult to define burnout precisely, the symptoms include a sense of being immobilized, withdrawn and apathetic...
...work focus. And when workers suffer, companies suffer. Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, CEO of Boston-based Circadian Technologies and author of The Twenty-Four-Hour Society, observes that the firms that have chosen to "push it to the max get hit later by the hidden problem of fatigue, burnout and stress." Sometimes the results can be disastrous. According to Moore-Ede, industrial deaths and injuries related to shiftwork cost the U.S. economy as much as $1.5 billion a year, and airplane crashes and plant explosions another $5 billion. Truck drivers alone are involved in fatigue-related accidents that cost...
...yawn in Moscow. An Italian newspaper on Thursday accused Russia?s president of taking bribes, while USA Today alleges that he presided over a $15 billion money laundering scheme. But the allegations are unlikely to dent Yeltsin?s already negligible popularity. "The Russian people are suffering scandal burnout," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Some of these allegations have long been aired in the Russian press ? although they?re dismissed by the Kremlin. Charges of corruption at the highest level don?t have much shock value in this country...
...There's a huge burnout factor in these jobs now, and he's been at it very intensively for eight years. One would just wonder how long an individual can keep up that kind of pace," says Charlotte H. Armstrong '49, outgoing president of Harvard's Board of Overseers. "Give the man a break...