Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elevation of Tadesse to the status of official victim was continued efficiently by the national press, which came out with images of Tadesse as a culturally disenfranchised foreigner, overtaxed by the evils of Ivy-League stress and pre-med competition. Harvard's student presses churned out expository writing papers on these topics, along with attacks on the advising system which, they maintained, should somehow have seen this coming...
...course, Graham has to find someone to replace Madura. So far, he's looking closely at a pair of freshmen, Ivy Wang and Rosemary She. Though Wang is recovering from a stress fracture, Graham believes that both will see some varsity action this year...
...stifled by a sense of social isolation (or, oddly, both); whether mired for hours in a sense of life's pointlessness or beset for days by unresolved anxiety; whether deprived by long workweeks from quality time with offspring or drowning in quantity time with them--whatever the source of stress, we at times get the feeling that modern life isn't what we were designed...
Educational assistance will be increased andtime off during the Christmas holiday will beadded under the new contract. Portions of thecontract also stress the importance of flexibilityin scheduling and the importance of internal hireswhen possible
...moments of stress, Alicia Silverstone has the adorable and quite marketable habit of squinting -- as if trying to read a TelePrompTer or possibly hatch a thought. This makes the 18-year-old actress the ideal vessel for Clueless, an enjoyable movie that says a lot about the needs of Americans, and not just teens, in the mid-'90s. The tale has Cher (Silverstone), a popular high-schooler in Beverly Hills, toiling as a matchmaker, as her father's confidant, as a makeover adviser to a clumsy friend (Brittany Murphy) and as her stepbrother's nemesis. All this echoes the plot...