Word: stressful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This is not to say that there aren’t valid arguments against the direct elections. Some council die-hards continue to stress that the UC should not devolve into a separate committee mindset. We disagree. The Harvard student body demands two things from its UC representatives: accountability and enthusiasm. Committees should not be able to blame the entire UC for passing poorly planned expenditures that their members bring before the council. More work needs to be done in committees to vet proposals beforehand. To ensure this level of accountability, UC reps must be fit—both...
...they fleeing? Australian investigators have found stress in the mix, but it's research out of the U.S. - where teacher dropout rates match Australia's - that has homed in on what the main stresses are. Asked to choose the biggest challenge they face, 31% of teachers cited involving parents and communicating with them as their top choice, according to the 2004 MetLife Survey of the American Teacher. Some 73% of beginning teachers said too many parents treat teachers as adversaries. Australian educators make the same observations: "I say to some of our parents," says Allen Brooke, principal of Caroline Chisholm...
...lives loop and twist from age to age. The baby toddles into childhood, the child erupts into a teen, then a woman, who by the time she has passed 40 is long overdue to shed her skin again. That shedding can be traumatic, treacherous, born of sorrow or stress; but to hear the prophets of personal reinvention tell it, it may also be an unexpected gift. With that endearing sense of discovery that baby boomers bring to the most enduring experiences - like growing up or finding God or burning out - women are confronting the obstacles of middle age and figuring...
...replaced by the insistent signals of menopause. Anthropologists say male status is typically tied to money and power, which explains why the standard male midlife crisis is triggered by a career crack-up. Women's turmoil often reflects events in their personal lives as well as the accumulated stress of years of ladder climbing, multitasking and barrier breaking. Nearly three-quarters of women from 40 to 54 in a Yankelovich Monitor study said life is "much too complicated...
...Relationships are a reality; the social stress of choosing people to live with is a reality, and we’re trying to respond in a way in which students will benefit,” said Ryan A. Petersen ’08, who co-sponsored the bill with Haddock and Chadbourne...