Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major impediment to progress is the caution of the blacks, who are wary about pressing for advancement individually and, even more often, are not encouraged to do so. Also, some of the blacks who do achieve higher posts find themselves alienated from their friends and family and suffer severe stress symptoms...
...elimination of the stress test is another welcomed "correction" of Chafin's new administration. The union vigorously opposed the implementation of the test, which registers physical reactions under artifical stress, during the contract negotiations last fall. HPA negotiators faulted the test for its rigidity: the patrolmen argued that the test exaggerates every small physical problem, and might be used as an excuse for disqualifying basically fit patrolmen from active duty. Harvard included the test in the contract but agreed to delay implementation until July 1979. Chafin says, however, that it will not be implemented...
...within the Western press as a whole. It is a fashion; there are generally accepted patterns of judgment and there may be common corporate interests, the sum effect being not competition but unification. Enormous freedom exists for the press, but not for the readership because newspapers mostly give enough stress and emphasis to those opinions which do not too openly contradict their own and the general trend...
...eaglet outfield may not be the most reliable form of transportation to carry the Giants to the pennant. During a hot stretch drive, especially against relentless veterans, they have been known to flutter dangerously, not to say grow flustered, under stress. The Dodgers are such an enemy. Though they have thus far stumbled along, beset by injuries, they are still at or near the top, an established team of stars capable of leaving anybody in the dust...
...Dinesh Patel, co-director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Sports Medicine Clinic, "Sixty percent of athletic injuries could be prevented by training and warmup, another 20% by proper shoes and prescreening for tight joints or other abnormalities." Doctors also recommend a complete physical (including the treadmill stress test) for anyone over 35 before any form of exercise is begun. In selecting a sport, weight, body build and general flexibility must be considered. Fat people should forsake jogging in favor of sports like swimming that mitigate the effects of gravity. Women are looser jointed than men, therefore less likely...