Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempt to stem that tide, the board of education in Detroit -- where black males have a 54% dropout rate -- decided to establish three all-male public schools. Open to all races but focused chiefly on black students, they were to feature high academic standards, strict discipline and a stress on African-American history...
Businesses are under great stress as well. Regulators have cracked down on banks, prompting them to cut back drastically on their lending. Companies drowning in debt are slashing capital investment and firing employees. Nearly 1 million workers have been laid off so far this year. Even the government, usually a reliable spender of last resort in a recession, will be absent this time because of record deficits at every level -- local, state and federal...
...Morgan, more or less minding his own business. And there also was cashier Randy Maresh, who seemed to delight in tormenting Morgan. At length Morgan got fed up, hired a lawyer and sued Maresh for $100,000 in damages. The complaint: Maresh "willfully and maliciously inflicted severe mental stress and humiliation . . . by continually, intentionally and repeatedly passing gas directed at the plaintiff." Not only that: Maresh would "hold it and walk funny to get to me" before expressing himself...
...University of California has a docket of similar suits long enough to keep the courts busy for years. Ten university attorneys, in fact, work full time solely on cases involving employees. In one recent imbroglio, a U.C. Santa Cruz employee, citing emotional stress, sued a colleague and the university after the colleague wrote a message on official stationery labeling him a racist. The plaintiff lost his case in two courts and plans to appeal to the state supreme court. He has meanwhile retired on a disability pension...
...stress on me. It's not fun to be labeled when you know that it's very shortsighted. On the other hand, overall I am very, very happy because I think the terms of the debate have been really opened up. I don't think things will ever be the same again. And I think Clarence Thomas' nomination drives that nail home. There will now forever more be diversity of opinion in the black community. People will think about these things a great deal more than they did when we were a sort of one-party system. I feel very...