Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sympathy is being wasted on executives for leading lives so full of stress and strain that it impairs their health. Actually, their subordinates suffer more from high blood pressure and artery disease. These surprising findings were reported in last week's A.M.A. Journal by two Manhattan researchers who compared 1,171 male executives (ranging down from directors, corporation officers and general managers to division heads and auditors) with a mixed group of 1,203 nonexecutives (including 563 women). They worked for the Standard Oil group of companies, largely in Rockefeller Center's tallest (70 stories) skyscraper. All were...
...centers in five U.S. cities (including West Hempstead, L.I.; New Orleans; Philadelphia), has other buildings under construction in Cleveland and Buffalo. Tishman's buildings win few architectural prizes, are often deplored by architects as unimaginative, even ugly. But they please tenants -and cut costs-because they lay heavy stress on economy of space, no-nonsense layouts...
...broke tradition and decided to give its salesmen one big reason to work harder: a sales-incentive program for its staff that pays them a cash bonus for new accounts or sales over quotas. In so doing, it joined the growing number of U.S. firms that are putting new stress on sales-incentive programs to combat the recession...
...apologetic or patronizing when they praise the U.S., Maritain proclaims his love with unstinted ardor. Having taught in and known the U.S. for almost a quarter of a century, Philosopher Maritain is familiar with America's authentic face and voice; yet he remains enough of a stranger to stress truths that are overlooked or taken for granted by many Americans. Probably Maritain's central point: "[Americans are] the least materialist among the modern peoples which have attained the industrial stage...
...What does it all mean? It means that one of the greatest economic social revolutions of all time-the surging growth in America of a mass middle-income class-is still going on. It means that industry should be placing more, not less, stress on the middle-income market...