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...economics, but as a matter of emotional necessity. The latest pedagogic phenomenon is something called "teacher burnout." It is a psychological condition, produced by stress, that can result in anything from acute loss of will to suicidal tendencies, ulcers, migraine, colitis, dizziness, even the inability to throw off chronic, and perhaps psychosomatic, colds...
...moment, however, Silicon Valley has more close-to-home problems, like attracting young computer geniuses who will pay California housing prices. The median price of a home in the Santa Clara Valley is now $97,500, and the chronic shortage of houses statewide has been worsened by the recent slump in construction and home loans. Laments California Builder Nathan Shapell: "New single-family homes will be for those selected...
...store. After years of dealing directly with Kissinger, Vance's foreign counterparts wanted to see the Secretary of State himself, not some surrogate. Vance ended up flying nearly half a million miles on 85 trips, 34 of them abroad. It was mostly physical fatigue, aggravated by a chronic bad back that led him to announce in April 1978 that he would not serve a second term even if Carter were reelected. That characteristically forthright declaration was a tactical blunder of major proportion. It instantly made him a lame duck, a man presumably looking forward to getting out, and therefore...
...relentless daily pounding of dismal news drives deeper the public's conviction that the economy is in a profound and morose crisis. Feverish inflation, previously a rare malady limited primarily to wartime, has become chronic. Price spurts once associated with profligate banana republics are now common to North America and Western Europe and threaten the foundations of democratic societies. With every sign showing that prices in the U.S. will continue soaring even as the nation begins slumping into recession, President Carter, his re-election jeopardized by the economy more than by anything else, is stuck in an economic morass...
...years had the worst results. But nonsmokers who had worked for more than 20 years in smoke-filled areas had scores similar to those of light smokers (people who over two decades had smoked but not inhaled or had smoked fewer than eleven cigarettes a day). Concluded the researchers: "Chronic exposure to tobacco smoke in the work environment is deleterious to the nonsmoker...