Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live," complains Gene Jadwin, 37, owner of the Silver Bay Motel. "This anxiety is really hard on your family life." Marital tensions have risen as the town's predicament has worsened; there were five divorces in 1971 and 30 in 1975. "We're seeing a lot of stress-related symptoms," says Dr. Donald Haase, 53, one of the town's three physicians. "We're getting more cases of acute and chronic depression, and more gastrointestinal problems too." Lutheran Minister David Kupka, 36, likens the town's behavior to that of a family with a terminally...
...gone far enough. He notes that at least one uneuphemized edition of Pinocchio, printed in 1967, is still on sale. He complains that illustrations of the cat wearing opaque eyeglasses and the fox struggling along on a crutch "give the impression of the abjectness of disability and stress discrimination against disabled unfortunates." The group's campaign has drawn a public apology for "thoughtlessness" from the major Japanese publisher of the children's classic, along with promises to withdraw at least four editions...
Harvard previously sought "a chair in Modern Korean Studies to parallel the present chair in Pre-Modern Korean Studies" whose stress is historical. I failed almost completely to get it. And, while prating of further quest, by getting a major economic-society component alone in a small and job-starved field with few fund sources, it becomes far less likely that Harvard can and will make good the discrepancy...
...Japanese and European economies are by nature competitive rather than complementary, since their manufacturers make the same types of products-but the Japanese place a greater stress on foreign sales. Since World War II, aided by a supremely motivated work force and a gigantic worldwide marketing-intelligence network, the Japanese have made exports the cutting edge of industrial growth. Kinji Yajima, an economist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, says frankly: "The very efficiency of this Japanese machine makes it ruthless...
...early fall, when problems of vaccine supply and distribution became paramount, officials did not stress the need for a second dose. The assistant director of the national swine flu program, Dr. H. Bruce Dull, said after an October speech at the School of Public Health that he thought one injection would be adequate...