Word: stressed
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...rice diet of the Japanese is much lower in fat content than the meat, dairy and fried-food menu favored by Americans. But a new study by researchers from the University of California at Berkeley seems to show that the difference is largely cultural, not culinary. The findings indict stress, American-style, as a major cause of coronaries...
...competitive and impatient traits of most Americans increasingly succumb to the strain. The study found that Japanese who made a moderate transition to Western ways suffered 2½ times as many heart attacks as those who continued to live like their forebears. Those who plunged most fully into the stress of American life were five times as likely to have coronaries as those who maintained Japanese ways...
Even in their highly industrialized homeland, the researchers note, Japanese have considerable protection against stress. They live in closely knit groups and compete as a group, rather than as individuals. But once they enter the U.S., many become subject to the same stresses as Americans. "Most Americans move away from their support group during their lives, move from one place to another, drop old friends and take up with a new set of people," explains Marmot. "That's a very un-Japanese thing...
...Great Stress. The Yard gets on to him and becomes duly alarmed. The I.R.A. is even more desperate, however. If Hennessy's plot succeeds, the group will be discredited the world over. Pursued on all sides, nearly run to ground, the fanatic Hennessy is totally alone...
Ford's speech, delivered the following day, was a mirror image of Brezhnev's, in the sense that the points ignored by the Soviet leader were the ones stressed by the U.S. President. While Brezhnev listened to a translation through a headset and jotted notes, Ford emphasized the importance of the Basket Three principles of liberty of thought, movement, and the flow of information. He also gave measured stress to the phrase "and the possibility of change by peaceful means," citing Berlin as "a flashpoint of confrontation in the past [that] can provide an example of peaceful settlement...