Word: overworking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overwork of "working mothers" and the marital strain of two-career families pose serious dangers to the modern family. Unfortunately, the staff seeks to heal society's wounds with a balm of dubious effectiveness...
...area of eastern Cambodia. There, father and sons labored twelve hours a day and more in the paddies, although Seng's wife was too weak to work. At that, they were lucky: in the same commune, perhaps a third of the 3,000 workers died of disease, starvation and overwork, or were executed by their Khmer Rouge overlords...
...rumors in the industry. When Yves Saint Laurent was hospitalized for exhaustion last month and failed for the first time to appear at his Paris ready-to-wear show, there was some gossip of AIDS. But Saint Laurent has long suffered from a delicate constitution and is prone to overwork. Rumors that Calvin Klein had AIDS surfaced about seven years ago. Klein, who is married for a second time, strongly denied the rumors...
Second Shift also details the more subtle effects of women's overwork: a brewing resentment, declining communication between spouses, the creation of delusions to prevent breakdowns and lack...