Word: stressed
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Conservatives have never had much electoral appeal in times of economic stress. Can they have...
...ECONOMIC STRESS. In recent months, the focus of public concern has shifted from inflation to recession. Asked which they fear more, 52% of those surveyed said recession and 42% said inflation-almost an exact reversal of the figures tabulated three months ago. The reason seems to be that fear of unemployment has come to overshadow public concern about inflation's effects on savings and food, which peaked last fall and have actually declined since. This was shown when people were asked whether they worry a lot about the following...
...mere threat of losing a job, he reports, can lead to "anticipatory symptoms," including heavy drinking. The child clinic is also getting "a lot of cases where a father is laid off and the adolescents explode with the tensions created in the home." Landau cites studies showing that the stress signs caused by unemployment can remain in the family for up to two years after a worker regains...
...Orleans man who had just lost his job slammed his baby against a wall until it lost consciousness. An Atlanta real estate agent, under severe stress when his commissions dropped drastically, lost his temper and beat his five-year-old daughter so severely she had to be hospitalized. Such incidents suggest that economic strain is an increasingly important factor in child abuse. Says Jerry White, director of protection services for the Georgia human resources department: "It's a consequence of the economic crisis that people do not think about...
...proposal; it seems there is little the conference can do towards accomplishing this end. A second proposal is Harper's, which is as close as the conference comes to taking any direct action in the context of the Boston school system. It's a sound proposal, but not much stress is placed on it--the march proposal is what occupies the conference's time and energy. There is a fear in the national group gathered here that supporting "quality education" is just giving in to "the racists," and from there busing will quickly be scuttled, leaving the present situation unchanged...