Word: duress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adjustments that Blair had to make on the ice were made under more duress. Harvard's four-year netminder had a shaky first season for the Golden Eagles, appearing in 25 games, winning seven and losing 14 in the regular season...
...people in love, or of an artist to his work. Their creation--and that of the artist--is more a part of them than the child the surrogate mother produces of her. Their attachment is more fundamentally "human" than the attachment of a woman who only endures the duress of carrying a child for money. Mary Beth Whitehead, like scores of surrogate mothers before her, did not consider creating a baby until some man and woman made it worth her while...
...employee for each 140 clients allows it to meet high performance standards, like routinely answering all customer mail within a day of receipt. Amica tries to respond to claims in the same speedy manner. The company's adjusters have been known to take extraordinary pains to assist clients in duress. After Hurricane Gloria hit the New England coast in 1985, one Amica homeowner policyholder was unable to get any government agency to remove a ten-ton tree that had fallen onto her house. When she called Amica for help, an adjuster came out and made arrangements the same...
...tried to talk to him about the duress under which he had agreed to write his statement -- the four months of separation, the isolation, the force- feeding. But he said he didn't see anything wrong with his statement. He really didn't want to deal with social issues any more because he didn't have the strength for them. He felt sick, tired, and all he wanted was to do scientific work and be with...
Mireya Navarro, 29, a California journalist, reports that her relationship with an "Anglo from Berkeley" used to undergo social duress and some physical stress when the couple hit the dance floor. Then the merengue craze blew in from back East. "I tell him, 'All you have to do is march and move your hips,' " Navarro says. "If there's one dance that Anglos can get into, merengue is it." In New York City, merengue is footing aside other variations of Latin dance music and is busting out of the Spanish clubs into slicker venues. Mayor Edward Koch showed...