Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown is worried enough about environmental stress and resource depletion to devote a third of his book to these issues, why doesn't he think out proposals to curb 'the explosion in the consumption of nonrenewable resources' as well as 'the population explosion'? Does he want population growth in the poor countries to stop so that the poor can lead decent and dignified lives--or so that the rich countries can consume even more? His observation that population growth may endanger the skier and take the fun out of golfing might make a Nigerian wonder how serious Brown's stake...
...STRESS. Though many of those with apparently complete control over their emotions have high blood pressure, researchers have found that there is a relationship between stress and hypertension. Blood pressure normally rises with excitement or alarm. In most people, the pressure drops when the excitement is over. But according to one theory, in many the level drops by smaller increments, eventually stabilizing at a higher level than before. Significant increases in blood pressure were recorded among Russians who survived the siege of Leningrad and Texans who survived the Galveston Harbor holocaust in 1970. Similar increases might well be found among...
...would be an "absolutely unambiguous American commitment" and should make the Israelis feel secure enough to return most of the Arab territory they have occupied since the 1967 war. Moreover, there would be much less risk that the Arabs would underestimate the U.S. commitment to Israel. Some political experts stress that in a diplomatic situation as difficult as that in the Middle East now, a treaty might be useful. "The only effective and tested form of guarantee is an alliance," declared Oxford Professor Alastair Buchan in last year's Reith Lectures...
...particularly radical proposal, and a lot of delegates said they just wanted something different from what President Ford was offering. But it's still the first time a major party has written an economic program into its charter. And the convention's rhetoric, with its strong stress on price and profit controls and the benefits a Democratic victory would offer working-class and other "little" people, suggests that as the economy gets worse, the party will move further in that direction...
...enlightenment, and maintained that how a country was governed--by popular assembly or benign bureaucracy--was less important than what its government did. As an intelligent man, Lippmann naturally recognized that how governments worked and who ran them often had an effect on what they did. But his stress was generally on the smoothness and efficiency with which they did things--that was much of what he meant by praising "realism...