Word: overworked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gweep: hacker suffering from overwork...
...last. He was, after all, using mirrors- often platooning eight mediocre players, for instance-to create the illusion of an infield. Certainly Oakland's starting pitchers were impressive, setting a modern record by completing 94 games in 1980. But, it was argued, the strong arms would weaken with overwork. In any event, the league was wise to the wiles of Billyball, as Martin's harumscarum tactics became known. Surely no catcher would fall for the double steal in 1981 after being burned so often last year, and of course pitchers were now alert for the attempted steal...
Come Christmas, Santa had better not overwork his reindeer or he may end up financing some fancy surgery for them. According to Dr. Claes Rehbinder of the Swedish Veterinary College at Uppsala, reindeer suffer from stress and are prone to ulcers. Studying animals slaughtered during a roundup in the Lapp village of Mittådalen and elsewhere in northern Sweden, Rehbinder found that an astonishing four-fifths of them had ulcers...
...play five performances a week under the previous contract, insisted on a reduction to four. They were so determined that they even volunteered to accept a slightly smaller pay increase than the opera had offered. Said Union Counsel I. Philip Sipser: "The cause of the dispute is overwork, which produces illness and tension." The Met board was equally adamant, claiming that to give in would set a precedent for other unions and wreck the opera's precariously balanced budget. Said Executive Director Anthony Bliss: "Survival is the question...
...Today that group has dipped to 28%. To staff the 256 sections of freshman English now required at the sprawling state campus. Liberal Arts Dean Robert King has ordered all English professors to teach one composition course annually. So far, none has carried out initial threats to quit from overwork...