Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poll of the general public, judges, lawyers and community leaders last year ranked public confidence in state and local courts below many other major American institutions, including the medical profession, police, business and public schools. Too much law, too many lawsuits and too many lawyers have all combined to overwork the judicial machinery. But the final responsibility for the courts rests with the people who run them: the 28,000 state and local judges, 1,083 federal administrative law judges who hear disputed claims brought to the regulatory agencies, and nearly 700 federal judges charged with upholding...
...priest from an outlying parish in Rome. This, plus the normal burdens of office, puts an observable strain on even a robust 59-year-old. Since taking office, the Pope has suffered from a lack of his customary exercise and reportedly has dropped about 15 Ibs. due to overwork. He is installing an 83-ft. swimming pool at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer retreat. When a French cleric injudiciously remarked on the cost, the Pope was quick to reply, "It's less expensive than having another conclave...
Over at NBC, meanwhile, Tonight Host Johnny Carson loudly complains of fatigue after 17 years at the helm and wants to break out of a contract with two more years to run. Carson's blasts about overwork and diminishing creativity have a strangely familiar sound. Not unlike the media war he waged against NBC two years ago in order to trim his five-a-week live appearances...
Complaint: Speaks of overwork, loss of confidence and inability to get provable results. Hears conflicting inner voices and insists that former friends are laughing behind his back. Patient agrees with Norman Mailer: "It's hard to get to the top in America, but it's even harder to stay there...
...through the sheer force of her belief in justice, our response is to wonder why it took so long for the film makers to reach this big scene. It is the same with other sequences: company goons on the attack, the death of Norma Rae's father from overwork. There is an awful familiarity here and in Martin Ritt's conventional staging. The angles and editing are those of 30 years ago, and they seem less a reversion to classicism than a confession of creative failure...