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...fate of retailers likely to be better than some of the most pessimistic forecasts? Yes. But, for this to happen big retail operations will have to do the hard thing and lots of people will lose their jobs...
...Burchell's conclusions, which he presented at the conference "Credit Crunch: Gender Equality in Hard Times," have been drawn from his study of about 300 British workers as well as various European workforce studies and the British Household Survey of approximately 5,000 people, which has charted the effects of social and economic change on mental health since 1991. Both Burchell's study and the British Household Survey used a 12-item questionnaire - called the GHQ 12 - that is designed to measure symptoms of stress and anxiety with questions like "Have you recently been thinking of yourself as a worthless...
...Evolutionary psychologists support this theory by arguing that human beings feel more stress during times of insecurity because they sense an immediate but hard-to-discern threat - the modern-day equivalent of an unseen predator growling in the trees. Patients have been known to experience higher levels of anxiety, for example, while waiting for biopsy results than knowing the diagnosis - even if the result is cancer. It's better to get the bad news and start doing something about it rather than languish in limbo. When the uncertainty is prolonged, people stay in a sustained "fight or flight" response, which...
...like to think that we’ve turned the corner,” Harvard coach Brian Baise said. “We played some really good ball over the weekend, and we continued with that for the most part tonight. The guys are playing hard, and I was really glad that the team didn’t let down after the weekend...
...uptight, restrictive atmosphere this institution works so hard to foster, the seven-minute rule is the lone, laid-back beacon of permissiveness. And it’s a rule I’ve enjoyed abusing. Thanks, Edward Holyoke. Or whoever. You’re the best...