Word: stress
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...policies in reverse. Critical of what he has called U.S.-led "market fundamentalism," Hatoyama has rejected Koizumi's now unpopular market reforms and is steering the economy toward something akin to a European-style welfare state with a wider government-funded social safety net. Though Hatoyama has continued to stress the crucial nature of the U.S.-Japan alliance and his friendly relationship with President Barack Obama - "We have come to call each other Barack and Yukio," he said during Obama's November visit to Tokyo - he has also backed away from policies that Washington views as vitally important...
...will not claim that binge drinking is a good thing. Yet as Mr. Barreiera said in the Feb. 17 article, some students binge drink because of mental health issues, stress, or other concerns that have nothing to do with regulations. Were the College and UHS to reverse course and end amnesty or education programs in favor of harsher penalties, they would deprive those students most in need of vital services and discourage them from seeking assistance. What Mr. Knudson’s article fails to see is that an increase in the number of students admitted to UHS is infinitely...
...says that he has learned to identify the standard weak spots: vocabulary is not crucial, and he opts to focus on word stress and sentence fluency...
...officials stress the fact - and it is a fact - that both the number of terrorism attacks and the overall death toll have decreased to a level not seen since just after the March 2003 invasion. But statistics are cold comfort when the latest explosion has leveled a nearby building. Surviving yet another attack leaves Iraqis raw and emotional and angry. "We think they are still under the ruins, kids and young boys," says Jasim Talib Khalil, 43, a father of four who lives in the north-central Alawi neighborhood, close to the National Museum, near a bombed apartment building with...
...STRESS ENVIRONMENT