Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Bobbitt and the hung juries of the Menendez brothers. But critics charge that all these legal proceedings illustrate the same trend: juries are increasingly willing to make allowances for mitigating circumstances once considered largely irrelevant -- abused spouses who kill, violated children who murder incestuous parents, victims of posttraumatic stress syndrome driven to violence by disturbing flashbacks...
...nomadic existence contributes to the problem. Most move every three years, ripping the military family from the support network of relatives and friends that civilian families count on when times get tough. The long absences of the breadwinner -- on lengthy cruises, battlefield exercises or peacekeeping missions -- add to familial stress. The military drawdown, from 2.2 million troops in 1987 to 1.5 million in 1997, compounds the problem. Soldiers and sailors who once dreamed of a secure, 20-year career and a handsome pension now find themselves facing a truncated career, no pension and bleak employment prospects in the civilian world...
...they're good soldiers," she says. "They can't control their superiors on the job, so they control us." Although her husband admitted under oath last month in a Texas courtroom that he is married to two women, he remains in the Army. "He was under a lot of stress and was nervous about being kicked out," she says. "He said if he didn't get his sergeant's stripes, I was going to get hurt." She's angered that he remains in the Army in good standing even as it investigates his bigamy. "The military knows...
...large portraits of his personal hero, Abraham Lincoln, and teaches to his students a mixture of red-white-and-blue rhetoric and history. His wife Elisabeth (Amy Brown) and daughter Joanne (Genevieve Roach) complete the wholesome family portrait. But a closer inspection of the Williams reveals the growing stress fractures between the family members...
...other end of the field, Harvard junior Megan Colligan might get to see some action tomorrow. The attacker suffered a stress fracture in her leg in early April against Yale, but the injury wasn't diagnosed until last week...