Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second-guessed comes on top of the considerable pressures of the job. Police continue to have an unusually high rate of divorce and suicide. But the macho need to deny any weakness is disappearing. One in every nine Boston police officers has sought counseling from the department's Stress Program, with alcoholism, gambling and depression topping the list of problems. Psychologist Peter Runkle reports that a number of cops he has seen from the force in Sacramento, Calif., have impotence problems, "usually the men who do the best job in the streets." The physical dangers...
This outlook has led Wilson to scoff at the many social reformers who stress the need to deal with the causes of crime, and he says, "I have yet to see a 'root cause' or to encounter a government program that has successfully attacked...
...observational data being accumulated at those institutions is probably more interesting for the visitors than Harvard's theoretical research since the Chinese stress applied research over basic research, Paul Blanchard, special assistant to the director of the observatory, said Friday...
...playing with gusto the game they had vowed not to engage in this outing. After ABC and NBC guessed wrong in pronouncing Morris Udall the victor of last April's Wisconsin primary (Carter came from behind during the lobster shift), officials of all three networks said they would stress accuracy over speed on Election Night. NBC, for example, forbade staff members to tell its vote analysts about any competitors' returns, for fear of hastening NBC projections. Somewhere along the way, however, caution failed to thwart competitiveness. When Sheehan learned that CBS had awarded Pennsylvania to Carter, he phoned...
...Carter, once the nomination was his, he too became less available to reporters, except on the run. They also found it hard to report on a candidate who preferred to stress traits (character, leadership) rather than tangible policies. Politicians who might have had something to say, like Ted Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and John Connally, spoke only enough so that they couldn't be accused of absenteeism...