Word: stress
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...agency funding innovation. If the marriage of cardiac research and high-tech avionics sounds quirky to some, Carpentier says it's a natural match - the durability of his artificial heart depends on some of the same materials and technologies that keep planes in the sky for thousands of high-stress hours...
...more and more jobs head overseas, Brock and others on the commission can't stress enough how dire the need is for educational reform. "The nation is running out of time," he says...
...risk managers warned his boss that a decision to wager $3 billion on indexes of mortgage-related securities was too risky. The firm made the bet anyway; three months later, the risk manager left. "The psychology during a boom makes it very difficult to come up with large stress scenarios and get management to consider them to be credible," says Ed Hida, a partner in Deloitte & Touche's risk- and capital-management practice...
...slaughter on fork lifts, among other abuses.) Do you worry about the psychological impact of that undercover work? We have professional investigators. It takes a special person to be able to witness and document abuse and not be emotionally traumatized by it. I do worry about post traumatic stress disorder with our investigators because they see the worst things that humans do to other creatures...
Farley says no one in the business knows just how deep the slump will go or how long it will last. "With all the merchandising going on, the true test will come in the first quarter of next year," says Farley. Farley adds that carmakers are seeing stress even among what has been the industry's most reliable - though low-profit - customers over the years: "We are seeing quite a bit of capital stress on our rental partners...