Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ross A. McFarland, Guggenheim Professor of Aerospace Health and Safety Emeritus at the School of Public Health and a pioneer in the study of human response to environmental stress, died Sunday...
...stated ideal is valuable in itself. Second, the rather general phrases that I have used to translate into standard subjects: physics, biology, mathematics, history, the various social sciences and the humanities. Lastly, I am not suggesting that each of these subjects should be mastered by every educated person. Stress should be put on the concepts of "critical appreciation" and "informed acquaintance", for these can make the ideal realistic...
...Crisis. As dissent flourishes, Poland's economic crisis deepens. Although Gierek's government brought about an unprecedented boom in the early 1970s, the economy has recently been feeling the stress of inflation in Western Europe. The Soviet Union, responding to the oil crisis of 1973, increased the price of vital crude oil for the Poles 150%, to $8 per bbl. To make matters worse, Poland was hit by severe droughts in 1974 and 1975, forcing it to buy $2 billion worth of grain from...
...this year. Ford demanded a $395 billion ceiling on spending. Congress enhanced the stimulus by setting spending at $413 billion. Again, all the evidence-the recent slowdown in growth, the continuing high unemployment-shows that Ford's policy was too conservative. Democrats say Ford and his policymakers constantly stress the dangers of growing too fast, but often underplay the costs of growing too slowly -the cost of output lost. In consequence, needs go unmet, unemployment remains high, and strains develop in society...
...official argument was clear: a similar survey of deaths among the elderly who had, say, just drunk coffee might well have shown a higher mortality rate. Nonetheless, even doctors sympathetic to the flu program warned elderly people with heart or other chronic diseases to be wary of the stress and strain of getting shots at public clinics...