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Tension and stress can also play a role in RSI. People working under pressure tighten up; muscles cramp, shoulders hunch, necks get knotted -- further straining tendons and muscles. Deadlines, speedups and employee monitoring programs can exacerbate the trouble. RSI sufferers also must deal with the skepticism and resentment of co-workers (who may have to pick up the slack) and the knowledge that their productivity has been impaired. This can lead to a vicious cycle in which the victims are so worried about their jobs that they work even harder, making their hands and arms worse...
Gaither said the closing down of Louie's "is going to cramp a lot of students' styles in Mather and Dunster since it was the closest place to buy alcohol...
Harvard's capital campaign plans for the next few years may well enhance student life, but the University's neighbors worry that campus-wide reconfiguration will cramp their style...
...unimaginable a generation ago, but they still can't order a movie or TV show into production; they are still only middle people, not buyers. On the other hand, Ovitz has turned down the top job at Columbia Pictures and, perhaps, other major studios. To run a studio would cramp him, make him less singular. And although he still spends a majority of his time on his famous clients (85% of his day by his reckoning, 60% to 70% according to an underling), being an agent -- taking Dustin Hoffman's calls, holding Sylvester Stallone's hand -- may have come...
...starting to cramp up, and I couldn't move that well," Leschly said. "I had a hard time playing the long points...