Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that ended three years ago when Ciment had a heart attack. A quadruple bypass saved his life, and a chastened Ciment resolved to slow down. He quit his job to become...
Hospitals took the lead in treating stress by establishing clinics to help those for whom reducing tension was a matter of life and death: heart attack victims and severe hypertensives. Some of the advice offered to such patients is just plain common sense: quit smoking, lose weight, cut down on salt and caffeine (2½ cups of coffee will double the level of epinephrine in the blood), take vacations regularly and exercise. In some cases drugs are used, typically beta blockers like Inderal, which interfere with the action of certain stress hormones. But the core of most stress-management programs...
Later, one woman tells how problems at work were increasing her hypertension. "The stress and tension remained in me. It was something I couldn't control." But Beth Israel's program began to help her handle her emotions. She quit smoking and became much more relaxed on the job. Best of all, she stopped taking the three kinds of medication she once needed for hypertension, and watched her blood pressure drop in just nine weeks from a high 170 over 100 to a normal 120 over 73. The stress she is under may be the same, she says...
...foremost authorities on the grizzly, insist that the answer is for the Park Service to drop its "forever wild" doctrine, at least as far as bears are concerned. In the early 1970s, at the height of their quarrel with the federal authorities, the 66-year-old twin brothers angrily quit their grizzly studies in Yellowstone. Says John: "It's fine to say that you want a pristine, pre-Columbian setting, but it won't work in Yellowstone [which had 2.4 million visitors last year]. Man is a definite part of the ecology and must be accommodated...
That left another gap in Adler's set of academic credentials. He had quit DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx before getting a diploma. Late last week the school's alumni association offered to make him an honorary graduate...