Word: stressful
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...basement of Quincy House”; “emerging for breakfast at dawn to continue a discussion on the First Amendment implications of noise regulation, or exhausted but exalting over having discovered a data error in the latest unpublished study on the effects of unemployment on stress-related illness”; or “just standing in front of the mimeograph machine and chatting about life in general for hours on end.” “Do you know what a mimeograph machine is?” Bredehoft asked in parentheses. If I could...
...President such as Blair would surely increase the influence of Brussels; many Conservatives also feel personal animus toward the politician whose success consigned them to the wilderness for so long. "Having President Blair would put us in a state of permanent warfare if we won the election. I cannot stress how serious this is," a Tory source told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper...
Heeding their father’s advice, Brian and his older brother are both playing football for programs that stress academics...
...effects reported: the placebo and nocebo responses were just as robust before 1997 as after. That leaves scientists still looking for an answer. The Wired story suggested that the act of merely doing something good for yourself may stimulate the body's "endogenous health-care system," perhaps by inhibiting stress hormones. But that wouldn't explain why the same act might lead to phantom nocebo aches and pains...
These are very desirable results, says Janigro. With the right music, he says, patients can be more relaxed in the operating room. And that relaxation may mean not only that procedures involve less medication - to control blood pressure, which increases with stress - but perhaps that patients have quicker recovery times and shorter hospital stays...