Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...service firms find that they must offer greater value to win customers at home, they will be learning lessons that should improve their chances of doing business abroad. Frenetic consumers who spent much of the decade trying to have it all and wondering how to deal with the resulting stress may find unexpected serenity in their backyards. A touch of the tightwad is a much needed correction after the excesses...
...Thomasville, Ga., he jolted that little community by going to the front doors of white townspeople, not to the side or back entries. He is used to having gates open for him. He grew up in New Orleans, the son of a prosperous light-skinned dentist who liked to stress the family's "Indian blood." When he played with white boys, it was because he owned the ball and bat. When he studied theology, it was not with Southern Baptists but with white Congregationalists in Connecticut. Baffled in his attempt to become a missionary to Africa, he became...
...starting a "Bryan Pride" campaign to boost children's self-image and team spirit. To pave the way for improvement, she hired several forceful, imaginative teachers. Today literacy is paramount at Bryan, where the student body is one-third white, one-third black and one-third Hispanic. Teachers stress writing and the classics. Each month 400 children are bused to the Dade County Public Library; parents receive a "reading tips" newsletter...
When the shelling subsides, soldiers stretch out in their shelters, supine and seemingly impassive. Only the incessant chewing of betel nuts hints at stress. When they are not chewing, the men smoke cheroots. And when their tobacco runs out, they smoke rolled-up pieces of newspaper. Saw Klee Moo dangles a stick of paper out of the side of his mouth like a fat cigar, but he keeps it unlighted. The children fighting alongside their elders are too young to have developed nervous habits...
...Stress takes its toll on civility. A brutal assault by the Burmese troops that September left 40 Burmese and two Karens dead and made something in Major Than Maung snap. A few days later, a journalist visited Komura and found the major resting quietly in his bunker, surrounded by dozens of skulls mounted on stakes and planted in tidy rows. When a young Karen soldier playfully stuck a cheroot in the grinning teeth of one skull, the major chased him away. Then he grew quiet again and didn't want to be disturbed...