Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your life basically." Andy Grove, face to face with death three times a year. Surely he must love this. "I worry about it the last month of the four. It's not logical, but it's very observable and real. When I enter the month of the test, my stress notches up. And then as I get closer, I get more nervous. And then when they draw the blood, it's unimaginable--a new level of anxiety starts, and it continues until I get my results back." The tests, so far, have yielded only one surprise: Andy Grove...
...this stress has inspired corporations like AT&T and Boeing to recruit poets and other spiritual gurus to help managers cope creatively. "I teach people to find a special, still place inside themselves," purrs Richard Sandore, an obstetrician turned Andean shaman healer who founded a company called Soaring Spirit Inc. As a practitioner of "energy healing," Sandore works with Chicago-area businesses to tap the intuition and wholeness "that produced the works of Shakespeare and turned Microsoft into a billion-dollar giant within a decade...
Spending patterns suggest that a certain amount of modern stress arises from a struggle to keep up with ever growing expectations. "What we consider a middle-class standard of living now was considered rich 30 years ago," says Mitchell. "My neighbor lives with his young daughter, and he has three cars. Does he really need three cars? He can only drive one at a time." Children are especially absorbent of discretionary income: the obvious equation is that the less time parents have to spend on their children, the more money they spend, on dance lessons and soccer uniforms...
Miller says that funding housing and day care are the most pressing financial concerns facing undergraduate mothers. In addition, the stress of juggling parenthood and work compels undergraduate parents to take extra time to complete requirements...
...There are nights when I have insomnia where I can't sleep because of the stress," Ocon says. "Being a single parent is a scary concept that I don't think a lot of people understand...