Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychological strain is hardest on middleaged, upper-middle-income executives, who felt wedded to their companies and drew strong creative satisfactions from their jobs. Corporate managers find it even harder to adjust to unemployment than do entrepreneurs. Says Ari Kiev, a Manhattan psychiatrist: "Managers are probably more dependent persons who often tie up their whole lives with the corporation. When unemployed, they feel abandoned and have nothing to fall back upon. But entrepreneurs, however devastated by unemployment, are more flexible, more self-reliant." One of his patients, an unemployed entrepreneur, went out and found a job as a cab driver...
Strathmeyer was seeded seventh prior to the Easterns. He failed to place and lost in the consolation rounds. Lee attributed Strathmeyer's problems at the Easterns to the strain of having to wrestle three bouts...
...newsmen leaked a conversation they had had with Elliot Richardson just before his swearing in as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Richardson said he thought that the odds were fifty-fifty that the Secretary would resign before the end of the year, depending upon the strain of the job and how much Kissinger felt he was being undercut by Congress. Richardson added that he thought he had a 2-to-l chance of becoming the next Secretary of State...
After much internal struggle and strain, the Democrats managed last week to produce their long-awaited " alternative" to President Ford's price-oriented energy program. The plan, drafted in haste by ad hoc task forces from both Houses of Congress, led by Rhode Island Senator John Pastore and Texas Representative James Wright, had both practical and political purposes. First, it was intended as a guide for Democrats on various committees drafting energy legislation, although it is not binding upon them. Second, and more important, it was to serve as the Democrats' bargaining position in working out energy policy...
...stamina of a steer. Unlike most long-distance runners, whose faces are studies in agony after the first lap, Bayi, 21, almost looks as if he is out for a leisurely Sunday lope; occasionally, he can be seen smiling faintly when his lead turns insurmountable. His only concessions to strain are frequent glances over his shoulder to see if anyone has kept...