Word: stress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What I'm concerned about is the stress test," Roby said. "When you're an engineer, in order to test the product, you put it under extreme pressure--more pressure than you could ever hope to find in regular use--in order to be confident and sure that it will hold up under stress...
...easy to do the right things when you're winning, but it's really hard to do when you're down," Roby continued. "That's the stress test and we're still looking to make sure that we're going to react the proper...
...know if any statistics are significant because the score was so lopsided," Roby said. "That's what I mean about the stress test. You've got to make those free throws when the game is in doubt. When you're down 27 at the half, I don't know if any statistic is significant...
...rights. I considered it a disadvantage that we were signers of the Helsinki Final Act and the Vienna declaration yet we did not abide by certain parts of those agreements. We intend by this action to emphasize the unity between word and deed. Last but not least, let me stress that to open the border does not mean that its existence should be questioned...
...brisk rate of change has already created stress fractures between the students, who have their own strike committee, and the Civic Forum, whose leaders are drawn largely from Charter 77, an umbrella opposition group set up in 1977 to defend human and civil rights in Czechoslovakia. The students, who were faster to draw up a concise list of demands, have been irked by the Civic Forum's failure to include younger voices in its deliberations. "The Civic Forum is more experienced," says Monika Pajerova, 23, "but we are more radical." Some within the Civic Forum regard the students as "children...