Word: stress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Beverly, 42, a Viet Nam veteran, suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder, which includes sudden flashbacks of battlefield terror. Last week two administrative-law judges in Wisconsin awarded Beverly $85,700 in worker's compensation after finding that co-workers at the Miller brewery in Milwaukee preyed on him from 1981 to 1983 by taunting him with loud noises. Beverly claimed that employees popped milk cartons, broke beer bottles and even set off fireworks to see his reaction. Helpless in the grip of the disorder, he would throw himself to the floor. Eventually he became so anxious, the judges found...
...financial stress worsened dramatically in April last year when city assets were temporarily frozen after East St. Louis failed to begin payment on a $3.4 million judgment arising from the beating of one local jail inmate by another in 1984. The city is now beset with dozens of lawsuits. Firemen have sued successfully to collect three years of back uniform allowances, only to be told that the award left no money in the till to pay their salaries. A bill making its way through the state legislature will erase the deficit in the current budget and finally...
Teenagers are committing more assaults, rapes and murders. And the aggression cuts across racial and class lines. Experts blame everything from physiological abnormalities to movies, rock music and TV cartoons glorifying brutality. Curbing the violence depends not on tougher punishment but on better treatment programs and restoring values that stress human worth...
...Literature and Arts area, however, "the stress [was] on conceptualization and methodology as opposed to learning the material," the review says...
...There were a few [faculty members in Literature and Arts] who deplored the stress on methodology and would favor a return to 'important works' as such," the report says. "This tendency is related to the few, but insistent, voices that request the return of survey courses...