Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Petroleum Exporting Countries gathered in Geneva for a specially scheduled policy review session, the U.S. President was not only wrapping up an Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement that is bitterly opposed in much of the Arab world, but he was also preparing to announce some energy measures that would stress increased domestic oil production to reduce the nation's perilous dependence on the OPEC cartel. Throughout the industrialized world, meanwhile, governments were struggling to keep alive a recovery from a sharp recession that in large part had been caused by the big jump in oil prices since 1973. In this...
...minutes) costs from $20 to $100, with the average at $50, or $12,000 a year for the five-times-a-week treatment recommended by Freud. As a concession to economic reality, most American psychoanalysts see patients only once or twice a week, and some have begun to stress even more limited short-term therapy to cut expenses further. One sign of the times: Freudian Judd Marmor, a former president of the American Psychiatric Association, now recommends treatment limited to 20 or 30 sessions, with analysts abandoning their passive role to confront patients more and speed recovery. Marmor points...
...Crimson freestyle relay entries, in both the 400 and 800, are darkhorse candidates at best. But, if Hackett can withstand the physical stress of swimming five events, and Coglin, Jack Gauthier, and Julian Mack are as sharp as they were at the Easterns, anything could happen. The 800 quartet surprised many in the swimming world last year when they finished 12th...
...throw from Harvard Square. Harvard Medical School Professor Edward Clarke proved how right Eliot was by warning, in Sex in Education, a treatise typical of the time, that women, endowed by nature with smaller brains and more delicate physiques than men, could be seriously injured if exposed to the stress of higher education...
Both the Egyptians and the Israelis recognize that without a peace agreement the area from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean could be plunged into prolonged turmoil and stress. Having lost access to Iran's oil, which once provided almost 50% of their needs, the Israelis are eager for a settlement with Egypt that would allow them buyer's rights to crude pumping from the wells in Sinai and the Gulf of Suez. The Ayatullah's zealous denunciations of Israel raised fears that some of the sophisticated U.S. weaponry purchased by the Shah might eventually be lent...