Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relaxation boom has found a warm welcome in America's citadels of stress: large corporations. The reason, experts agree, comes down to the bottom line. By encouraging workers to reduce the strains on their hearts, backs and psyches, corporations can begin to lower the $125 billion or more annually spent on total health care for employees, a figure that has been rising by 15% a year. In addition, Benson points out, many firms are finally beginning to appreciate the long-established fact that too much stress makes workers inefficient. In 1908 Yale Psychologist Robert Yerkes, along with J.D. Dodson...
...vibrations from heavy artillery, which was believed to damage blood vessels in the brain. This theory was abandoned by the time World War II came along, and the problem was renamed battle fatigue. By then the great Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon, along with Selye, had proved that psychological strain itself could cause dramatic hormonal changes and hence physiological symptoms. Selye showed that when the fight-or-flight response becomes chronic, as it does in battle, long-term chemical changes occur, leading to high blood pressure, an increased rate of arteriosclerosis, depression of the immune system and a cascade of other...
...chores than the strain of guiding heavy air traffic. Such traffic, however, does take a toll on people living close to airports. Blasted daily by noise, people near Los Angeles International Airport have been found to have higher rates of hypertension, heart disease and suicide than residents of quieter areas...
Israel's relations with the U.S., which hit rock bottom during the ten-week siege of Beirut, have improved, although a sense of strain on both sides remains. One of the most important effects of Shultz's trip earlier this month was to restore relations between the two countries to a sort of equilibrium. Last week President Reagan lifted the embargo he imposed last June on the sale of advanced F-16 jet aircraft to Israel. The U.S. has no intention, however, of reinstating the November 1981 "memorandum of understanding" on strategic cooperation that entitled Israel to broad...
...administration does indeed "strain credibility." Currently supporting nearly 7000 insurgents in Nicaragua at a cost of $30 million for 1983, and asking for more money for 1984, the Reagan Administration has all but announced that its adherence to the Boland Amendment is purely formality. While publicly denying any designs on the Nicaraguan government. Reagan, in a press conference two weeks ago, called the U.S.- backed insurgents "freedom fighters." Confessed one aide: "It was not a programmed response. That's what the man believes...