Word: facing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson (3-2) will face the host Crusaders (4-1) in the first round of the four-team tournament. Game time is 7:30 in Worcester...
...Another stumbling block is the small scale of the production. Barely a face graces the screen that does not belong to one of the three main characters, and the bulk of the film was shot on just a few sets, adding to the sense of claustrophobia. The smallness of the movie goes beyond that, though--in what is intended to be a pivotal scene, Bendrix rushes out of his house to catch Sarah before she leaves town. But instead of sprinting down the streets in a romantic dash to his beloved, he just trots across a little patch of greenery...
...adds that some pressure is stimulating, but when they face too much, students sometimes just give up. Some students' tendency to just sleep or drop out of activities when they are burned out is symptomatic of another cause of burnout: long-term inability to adapt to rising challenges...
...Burnout basically means surrendering in the face of defeat, giving up on even continuing to try," Ducey writes...
...time of Thanksgiving, when students often face the sometimes less-than-desirable prospect of going home for the holidays, the phenomena of burnout begin to become manifest," Ducey says. "The weeks between Thanksgiving and the winter holidays are often the most critical period for students' recognition that their fall semester feels dangerously out of control...