Word: stressful
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...study was not designed to tease out specific factors, Tindle proposes several potential explanations, which she hopes to validate in further trials: optimistic people have more friends and a larger social network on which they can rely during crises; they also tend to cope better on their own with stress, a risk factor that has been associated with high blood pressure, heart disease and early death in previous studies. It isn't entirely clear how optimists manage stress so well, but it may have something to do with their physiological makeup - genes and metabolic processes that keep them from panicking...
...want to stress that I will not pay for this bid.' CAI MINGCHAO, the winning bidder on the $36 million statues and a member of China's Lost Cultural Relics Foundation, saying he sabotaged the auction out of a sense of patriotic duty...
...extremely difficult decision. Two weeks of makeup work is a daunting prospect for the average Harvard student. The other option—choosing to remain in the course—entails being trapped in a class that he or she dislikes. Given the gravity of this decision and the stress accompanying it, the administration should not be invoking a penalty that skews the student’s choice...
This week, President Barack Obama called for the 19 largest banks in the country to undergo “stress tests” to determine whether they are adequately capitalized to withstand a significant economic downturn. Critics have claimed that the government’s worst-case economic condition forecasts are too weak, making the tests inadequate. Still, the tests should provide valuable information on the health of our banking system, and the administration was wise to order them. Should the results eventually show that any major bank is undercapitalized, the government should not hesitate in taking it into receivership...
...task force meeting in early February, Chief University Planner Kathy A. Spiegelman said that it was unlikely the University would file an updated IMP in early 2009 as planned, due to financial stress...