Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the Crimson phone poll, the vast majority (57 percent) of Harvard students chose the category of pure enjoyment as best describing the reason why they smoked. This was followed by social pressure (13 percent); other, which includes drunkenness and curiosity (12 percent); the desire to relieve stress (II percent); and habit (7 percent...
...would like to stress to the members of the Harvard community that their role in strengthening the student voice is not over simply because they attended the rally. Instead, students and those who care about the students need to remain alert and informed of the issues. We all need to assume the responsibility of monitoring the administration closely, and we need to be prepared to speak up, write letters and petition if it looks like the College is going to make a decision that is egregiously contrary to student needs or opinion...
Proponents of the proposed memorial are quick to stress that it would honor all Harvard men who lost their lives in the Civil War. Yet its main purpose is to find a way to recognize the Harvard men who died fighting for the Confederacy. Union men are already honored in Memorial Hall. The benefactors who gave this building as a gift to Harvard wrote into its trust that the names of Confederate soldiers could never be enshrined within its walls...
...children scheduled to be cut from the nation's welfare rolls in the next seven years through caps on afdc and Supplemental Security Income, two major assistance programs, Digre predicts that Los Angeles will see more than 17,000 new cases of child abuse due to poverty and family stress. "Funding cuts will mean more abuse and more deaths," says Nancy Daly, who heads the county's 50-member family-preservation committee. Congressional Republicans, however, say the revisions merely target bureaucratic waste and allow states more flexibility...
...Kids do get bruises. There are accidents. Did I make the right decision?'" It is little wonder, he says, that "many of us are on antidepressants." Two-thirds of the 170 former Arizona caseworkers surveyed last January said they had left the job because of pressure and stress; half cited public criticisms...