Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...article in yesterday's New York Times blames Rudenstine's "illness" on his tremendous worklo88ad and the stress of a decentralized government...
Another commercial follows the path of McDonald's food as it travels through the air vents in an apartment building, all of whose occupants are Black. Unlike many of the white-casted commercials in the series, this and other all-Black ads stress value as a reason to come to McDonald's. The median family income for Blacks may be lower than that for whites, but this race-based economic targeting only reinforces stereotypes...
Coverage in the Boston Globe highlighted the beliefs of several administrators and faculty members that overwork and stress were leading factors that contributed to Rudenstine's illness...
While agencies don't deny that problems arise, they stress that happy endings are far more common than horror stories. And that, no doubt, is true. Thos and Lisa Paine of Belle Mead, New Jersey, for instance, have had mostly happy outcomes with their nine au pairs. "We worked with them to try to accommodate their schedule," says Thos. "We always invited them to spend holidays with us and got them presents." The Paines also never forgot that they were dealing with kids, not mature nannies. Like many couples, they have suffered their share of fender benders, missed curfews...
...group found that in almost every case, not enough serotonin had reached that key portion of the brain. The neurological fail-safes that normally prevent people from hurting themselves seem to have been disabled. "Having the biochemical deficiency alone is not enough to make you commit suicide," Mann says. "Stress alone is not enough. But if you have the pre-existing condition and you pile on a major depression or a substance-abuse problem, then the chances...