Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's a stigmatizing effect on women when they're told that they can't handle the stress, that they'll cry, that women need to be built up, not torn down, which is the Citadel's main defense," Vojdik said...
After the protracted legal battle, a federal district court ruled in June that Faulkner, who was 19 at the time, should be allowed to attend the Citadel because a similar program was unavailable to women. After only a few days of training. Faulkner withdrew from the academy due to stress and exhaustion...
WHEN IT COMES TO LEISURE, Michael Steinhardt speaks a language all his own. In 1978 he was determined to escape the stress of his hedge-fund management job and took a year's sabbatical from Wall Street. However, he used that time to start a real-estate and construction business in Israel. Steinhardt's notion of a vacation, he admits, is "screaming into an antiquated telephone, trying to find out what's going on." Time off hasn't always been fruitful. In 1994, after a rare three-week vacation in China, Steinhardt returned to New York to find that...
...SIMPSON JURORS HAVE BEEN given no counseling to help them through an ordeal that psychologists warn can induce unique and even dangerous forms of stress. Tracy Kennedy, a juror dismissed in March, attempted suicide two months later with an overdose of sedatives. Tracy Hampton, a flight attendant cut on May 1, struggled with depression so severe that she was hospitalized by the end of the month. After court adjourned on Wednesday, one juror could be seen at her hotel window with an exhausted look on her face, her forehead pressed against the glass pane. "I'm really worried about some...
...usually arises out of a sense of being trespassed against--the belief that one is being robbed of what is rightfully his. The body's first response is a surge of energy, the release of a cascade of neurotransmitters called catecholamines. If a person is already aroused or under stress, the threshold for release is lower, which helps explain why people's tempers shorten during a hard day. Scientists are not only discovering where anger comes from; they are also exposing myths about how best to handle it. Popular wisdom argues for "letting it all hang out" and having...