Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gradual rise in the people's spending level," said the Daily, "the service trades must increase the variety of food" and begin production of "stylish clothes that are simple and elegant." Even photographers were urged to "adopt various art forms in taking photographs." Peking is also carrying its stress on variety into the arts on the principle of Mao Tse-tung's famous maxim: "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend." Wuhan radio announced that 100 "experimental works of creative art" were performed at the Hupei Arts Festival last month, including Peking opera...
...feats of airline skyjackers inevitably inspire imitation, but Chicago's rock radio station WLS plans to take the romance out of the idea for its listeners. News Director Phil Hayes promises that WLS reporting of air piracy will stress the severity of penalties involved, rewards offered by airlines and convictions obtained in other cases: "We will give as much coverage to the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of a hijacker as we give to the actual hijack...
South Africa's Afrikaners lost the Boer War of 1899-1902 but won the country. Even so, they remain suspicious of the English-speaking white minority, and in moments of political stress, the Afrikaners-whose native tongue is related to Dutch-trot out their sacred tribal memories of the bloody fighting between Boer and Briton. Thus last week, in the midst of a parliamentary debate, Defense Minister Piet Botha declared that there were elements of the predominantly English United Party "who hate the Afrikaner." An opposition member replied, "You're a scandalous liar," and walked...
Most people lose some potassium when subjected to stress, which steps up the body's output of adrenal hormones and leads to increased elimination of the crucial salt. The astronauts, of course, go through heavy physical and emotional strain, and they face another problem as well. The weightlessness experienced in space causes the blood, which normally tends to pool in the lower extremities, to be distributed more evenly. The body senses this redistribution, reacts as if it were carrying excess fluids and attempts to redress matters by extra urination. That causes further potassium loss...
...further by the Interior Department and the Council on Environmental Quality, the SCS has decided to conduct the necessary environmental studies for hundreds of ecologically questionable channelization projects. "We aren't out to channelize everything," says SCS Administrator Kenneth Grant. "We're taking an approach with a stress on an absolute minimum environmental impact...