Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love working under stress, there's so much to do," said Eric W. Underwood, an Urban Outfitters employee. "Every-one is generally nice and polite, but some do get out of hand and have an attitude...
...aged 50 and older who have no close friends or relatives are three times as likely to die after suffering high levels of emotional stress as those whose lives are less lonely, according to a study conducted in Sweden...
...still hard to keep track of that seasonal entity which was so important back in the comparatively stress-free suburban life I led before...
Harvard is a terrible place to breed football coaches. Sure, there's that whole idea about "being the best" that Harvard likes to foist on its students and faculty, but when it comes to sports the university likes to stress the personal growth of the individual over winning. Wins and losses aren't as important as building the complete student-athlete. That's "the Harvard experience...
...Many of our most significant institutions, both domestic and international, are under great stress--stress that is serious enough to threaten their capacity to fulfill their basic functions. Some of our more established domestic institutions--our public schools, our health care system, our major cities, our manufacturing industries--are more beleaguered than at any time in recent memory...