Word: stress
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...family members portrayed as herd animals who go on grazing as a lion drags down one of them. The author is sharp but not cruel. She does not tell her story in order to solve a murder (although solve it she does) nor to subject her characters to unbearable stress in order to analyze their failures. The dark secret of the well, in a conventional narrative, would be the engine that drives the book. Here it is an undercurrent...
...systems analyst no longer smokes, and his scale registers 170 lbs. Though he had intended to stop smoking and lose weight, Benda got started with the help of an extra incentive: a company-sponsored program that rewards employees for taking steps to safeguard health. By attending smoking or stress workshops, exercising for at least 20 minutes, keeping their weight down, wearing seat belts while driving, or installing smoke detectors at home, employees of the New Jersey consumer health-care giant can earn "Live-for-Life dollars," good for such items as clocks, fire extinguishers, Frisbees and sweat suits. Says Benda...
...health promotion plan at Berol Corp. in Danbury, Conn.: "We certainly don't want employees doing stupid things like not seeing a doctor just to get a TV or microwave oven." But, he adds, there is no evidence that this has happened. The incentive chase may also induce some stress of its own. At Scherer, a worker who has not been late or absent for ten years wins a fortnight for two in Florida. One employee now in his sixth year of perfect service, says Scherer, "tells me that about twice a year he jumps...
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...researchers stress the still primitive nature of their craft. In the case of Mount St. Helens, one of the most heavily instrumented volcanoes ever, experts predicted many aspects of the 1980 eruption, yet they were caught off guard by both its fury and the extent of the mudflows it generated. And at Nevado del Ruiz, warning signs had abounded since Dec. 22, 1984. At that time a series of earthquakes were detected, followed by 30 minutes of harmonic tremor. Mild tremors continued throughout the spring and summer, and on Sept. 11, ash spewed forth for seven hours, accompanied...