Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Life on the train, according to the released hostages, was indeed a deadly combination of high stress and boredom. Because all the crossword puzzles had been completed, even the men inside the train began to take up embroidery to pass the time. One man plunged into a deep mental depression, and at one point another simply fainted, apparently from tension. The hijackers maintained strict hygiene inside the train. Every morning blankets were hung out of the windows and beaten to remove the dust. In the afternoon, hostages were assigned to remove excrement from under the train's toilet pipe...
...Observing that only one student in the class of 1980 applied to the department this year as a full-time concentrator (two freshmen will concentrate jointly in Afro), they contend that the policies of Southern do not promote the growth of Afro. The 1977 Concentrators' Report identifies an alleged stress on the humanities at the expense of the political and economic disciplines as a prominent reason for Afro's steadily decreasing number of students. Because Afro courses focusing on art and music are usually undersubscribed, many concentrators particularly object to the appointment of Josephine Wright, assistant professor of Afro-American...
...cross-cultural understanding and social change. As Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, who was one of Fairbank's graduate students after the war says, "Everyone would accept the view that we have a tendency to be culture-bound, but not everyone would stress it as much." And Thomson calls Fairbank an "historical pessimist" who "does not believe in the perfectibility of people or their institutions...
...GSAS has adopted a new technique for chastising unqualified applicants: rejection letters that stress the fact that the person should never have applied at all. And don't try it again, buddy...
...suspect malfunctions of the immune system, perhaps triggered by viruses. Indeed, in recent years, researchers have linked at least four different kinds of arthritis in Africa, Asia and Australia to viruses apparently transmitted by mosquitoes. Other types of arthritis may be bacterial in origin or simply the result of stress at certain joints. In any case, the lack of a clear understanding of many of arthritis' manifestations has complicated treatment; everything from corticosteroids to copper bracelets and special diets has been tried by sufferers. But the most common-and sometimes the best-therapy involves nothing more exotic than aspirin...