Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party speeches. That tactic, charged a West Berlin court prosecutor, tended to glorify the era, suggesting that Hitler's Reich was fun. After a Berlin court agreed, police raided newsstands throughout the country and confiscated the gewgaws. West German television stations barred Reich commercials when they appeared to stress the frivolous side of Nazism's adolescence. Reich's Hamburg publisher, John Jahr Co., then agreed to include "negative" scenes in the TV spots depicting Nazism's Götterdämmerung...
...auto industry? The idea would have seemed ridiculous during the long years when AMC was the only one of the four U.S. automakers losing money and struggling to stay in business. But in a market shrunk by the twin forces of inflation and the energy crisis, AMC's stress on low-priced, gas-saving small cars has suddenly made it the only company that is still prospering. Some examples of its leadership...
...moments of severe stress, like last week, the little things count. Old friendships, normal routines, the familiar and comfortable become as studied and engrossing as high policy...
...island's most outstanding achievement by far under Chiang's leadership has been its remarkable economic growth. Moving away from his father's obsessive stress on military preparedness, Chiang has based Taipei's continued survival on economic strength. Indeed, after Japan, Taiwan is Asia's greatest success story. Foreign trade in 1973 rocketed to $8.3 billion, up from $5.9 billion the year before. In some industrial products, such as television sets and transistor radios, Taiwan has already surpassed Japan as the main foreign supplier of the U.S. One gloomy note in this otherwise bright picture...
...Playwright Tom Stoppard turned Hamlet inside out and seemed to prove that even for bit players, great tragedy has no silver lining. When critics inquired about the play's message, Stoppard averred that this is no age for message in the theater. "One writes about human beings under stress," he said, "whether it is about losing one's trousers or being nailed to a cross." To risk a play whose primary level was philosophical, he added, "would be fatal." In Jumpers, that is just the gamble he has taken-in London with triumphant results. Now the play...