Word: overworking
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...workers who make up a large percentage of the union membership, must work long and unpredictable hours, often during the graveyard shift between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. The union argues that in order to maintain an acceptably high standard of patient care, the workers must not suffer from overwork or excessive assignments to graveyard shift hours. If they do receive overtime assignments, they should be amply compensated, the union contends...
...eating cake unless it helps my brother to have bread ... the ascetic ideal as such makes no appeal to me. The question, as I see it, is the extent to which our denial may help others ... My wife has a leaky heart. If she can be kept from overwork the doctor has said that she may hope for a reasonable long and useful life ... I think it is a dubious service to society not to bring up [my five children] as well...
...abnormal life-style led to a deterioration of his health, which already had been weakened by earlier accidents and overwork. After the first 18 months of seclusion in the Desert Inn, Hughes had wasted to less than 100 Ibs. He developed chronic anemia in 1968; one of the Western world's two or three richest men suffered from malnutrition...
Above all, she takes meticulous care of her husband when he is not campaigning, making certain he does not overwork and gets to bed before 10 p.m. Reagan seems to relish the motherly, don't-forget-your-galoshes attention. With great affection, he calls her "Mommy" and she calls him "Ronnie." Says Nancy Clark Reynolds, Mrs. Reagan's longtime press secretary: "When they hold hands, it's for real...
...million in the fiscal year ended July 31, 1974, and company officials were predicting $200 million by 1978. But in 1972 Yale left because of a heart attack and family problems, and in early 1974 Goshorn resigned as president (though he remained chairman) because overwork was ruining his 21-year-old marriage...