Word: stressful
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...bare, even of common-cold remedies. Doctors complain about shortages of antibiotics and approximately 200 other medications, ranging from simple Mercurochrome to sophisticated cancer and heart drugs. Aspirin has been rationed to 20 pills per person per year (40 pills for Havana residents, no doubt because of urban stress). About 10% of Cuba's 10.7 million people suffer from asthma, but asthma inhalers are almost impossible to obtain. Even such rudimentary supplies as sutures, syringes and surgical gloves are scarce, as are anesthetics. "We haven't had a simple cotton bandage to put under children's plaster casts for three...
...reading period--had been a long time coming. It was debated extensively by the Undergraduate Council, and then by the Committee on Undergraduate Education, both of which endorsed it. It clearly reflected the desire of a majority of students to extend the winter vacation and salvage it from the stress to exam preparation...
...Faced with immense challenge, our small grouphas pushed on over an extended period of time inexhaustion, stress due [to] constant pressure andlow morale for about one-half the staff," Steensays in the memo, which was obtained by TheCrimson. "In the last several months, several havespoken with me about work induced health issues ornegative effects on marriages, families, andrelationships due to the constant burden of tightdeadlines...
...true, Boston has a flourishing intellectual and artistic life, but if you're craving arts and intellect, then why not New York City? (I know why not New York City, but I thought only born-and-bred Bostonians like me realized that when you pare away the grime, violence, stress, affection and ennui, New York is just a wannabe...
...from there on, things started to go bad. Cruz, the captain and star jumper, went down with pulled ligaments in her ankle. Then, trying to compensate for a stress fracture in one leg, sophomore Amanda Williams pulled a ligament. And then, the team heard word that standout freshman distance runner Karen Goetze would be unable to perform in the meet, the victim of a stress fracture...