Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard, it seems, traditionally fostered a reassuring self-image as a worker-oriented, paternalistic employer; when a dwindling endowment and fiscal stress reared their ugly heads, however, the University quickly changed its tune. Now it speaks of "administrative convenience...
...economic stress indicator, a measure of people really hurt by the economy-those having trouble meeting bills, mortgage and rent payments, fearful of losing their jobs or not being able to save for the future-has steadied at 31% (v. 30% last fall). It had risen to a high of 36% in June 1975 from its Soundings...
...younger feminist researchers are making the same point. Some argue that the Dalton data merely show that many women have absorbed the mythology of the menstrual taboo. Others challenge the interpretation of the data. For instance, Barnard Psychologist Mary Brown Parlee points out that stress can hasten a period; therefore, many menstruating women who do poorly on exams may be victims of stress, not menstruation. Concludes Parlee: "We believe that hormonal change brings certain sensory change, but there is no scientific proof that the hormones make any difference in a woman's behavior...
Three women psychologists at Pennsylvania State University found no significant difference in the amount of stress reported by eleven men and 22 women (half of them on the Pill) over a 35-day period. Psychologist Barbara Sommer of the University of California at Davis reports that 29 women she studied had increased positive feelings around ovulation time, but no increased negative feelings before menstruation...
Eventually, the U.S. will have to recognize united Vietnam. But the Vietnamese consistently stress their independence of other countries, including the Soviet Union and China. "Without the cold and bleakness of winter," Ho Chi Minh once wrote, "the warmth and splendor of spring could never be. Misfortunes have steeled and tempered me, and further strengthened my resolve...