Word: stress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With so many applicants, Miller said students have to stress their strengths in their application, whether they be academic, athletic or in other extracurricular areas so that they stand...
...come to experience the brutalizing insanity and death of illusions that all witnesses who get close enough to the 'romance' of war inevitably confront." In 1946, after more than a decade of front-line reporting, says Kershaw, "Capa had started to exhibit many of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder: restlessness, heavy drinking, irritability, depression, survivor's guilt, lack of direction and barely concealed nihilism." He fulfilled a dream in 1947, though, by setting up the Magnum photo cooperative, named after the large champagne bottle. Capa next traveled to the Soviet Union, but the cold war did not suit...
...agony of mere churchgoers. That portrait, composed as it is of worst-case scenarios, may well be distorted. But it has raised fundamental questions of authority. "It creates a disconnect," says William V. D'Antonio, a sociologist at Catholic University of America. "It puts the whole system under structural stress...
...CRASH STRESS Research from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has shown that families involved in car crashes are often affected by acute stress disorders that last far beyond any physical injuries. After an accident, parents should be on the lookout for a change in kids' grades or loss of concentration, and increased tearfulness or jumpiness in all family members...
...authors describe one way that leaders can keep their balance and perspective amid active resistance. They call it "getting off the dance floor and going to the balcony." The point is to figure out what is really going on. But you can't stay in that posture, they stress. "Staying on the balcony in a safe observer role is as much a prescription for ineffectuality as never achieving that perspective in the first place...