Word: harders
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...researchers theorize that depression might have some direct physiological impact on the heart - like causing it to work harder in the face of stress. The study also found that the more depressed women were, the more likely they were to smoke cigarettes or have high blood pressure and diabetes - not exactly heart-healthy conditions. Or it may be that the antidepressants prescribed to treat those with mood problems were associated with heart ailments; in the study, sudden cardiac death was linked more strongly with antidepressant use than with women's symptoms of depression...
...authors of the second paper offer the standard theories about how an angry emotion translates to a physical heart attack: angry people have a harder time sleeping; they take prescribed drugs less often; they eat worse, exercise less, smoke more and are fatter. These things add up: compared with the good-humored, those who were angry and hostile - but had no signs of heart problems at the outset - ended up with a 19% higher risk of developing coronary heart disease, according to the University College London paper...
Critics contend the plan does too much to stimulate demand for top-rated securities and not enough to draw in buyers for riskier bonds that have always been harder for banks to sell. "We need to get credit buyers back into the market," says John McElravey, director of asset-backed research at Wachovia Capital Markets. "But TALF only addresses part of the problem." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...sell the lower-quality stuff to, banks may be stuck holding it. The good news is that so far, credit-card and auto loans have not had the same high rates of default as home loans. But as the economic downturn worsens, analysts say it will become harder and harder for consumers to make even the minimum payments on credit-card debts that have racked up over years of overspending...
...HARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER