Word: stressed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said. As the Cambridge, Boston, and other surrounding police departments implement these programs, Harvard is also attempting to increase student participation in its own alert program. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Robert P. Mitchell said the College is currently in transition, trying to figure out how to stress the importance of community alerts to students, faculty, and staff. “We are continuing to do outreach efforts each term and even more frequently,” he said...
Whatever the new weapons against smoking addiction may be, the authors stress that we already know the best way to prevent it - by not smoking in the first place. Cancer risk aside, smoking also increases the risk of emphysema and heart disease; what's more, smokers without the genetic variants are not at all protected from developing lung cancer or any other smoking-related disease. "Nothing in these papers should give people comfort in terms of continuing smoking," says Edelman, "even after they have their genetic profiles looked at. But if we can use this information to develop better approaches...
...dark side of corporate efficiency and cost savings is the consumers' stress, frustration, anger and wasted time spent attempting to resolve a problem. The interminable wait for a phone representative, the incomprehensible English from India or the Philippines and an unsatisfactory conclusion are all beyond endurance. Bernard Sussman, LONGBOAT...
...classmates, this was a grievous error. For these few, Harvard is still less “chill” than it is poor or populistic. Many may submit that, more than anything else, Harvard is defined by its lack of perspective on the simple pleasures, its utter divorce in stress and striving from the Frisbee-hurling good nature that has come to epitomize other, more likeable schools...
...rankings, they hoped Harvard’s new financial aid initiative was allowing more students to consider applying. Another issue that was addressed by the survey was the mental strain of the application process, with 61 percent of the 9,000 college applicants surveyed saying that their stress level was “high” or “very high.” The administrators had divergent views on the issue of applicant angst: Fitzsimmons emphasized the Admissions Office’s accessibility as a bulwark against stress, while Pilbeam said that the strains of the admissions process...