Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blackboard. Most 128 companies stress their academic bent. Their competitive advantage is sheer brainpower-a blackboard, chalk and talent snatched from all across the U.S. They attract many corporation scientists who want to do advance research at local universities-and then they jealously guard these recruits. Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna." At the same time, Route 128 companies draw as part-time consultants the fulltime professors and graduate students who want to put their ideas into action in industry (and to reap its rewards...
...modern dress and stress...
...interim between Geneva I and Geneva II (due to resume July 13), the headlines tended to stress the disarray in the Western camp: Britain's impatience for a summit on any terms, Adenauer's quibbles with Britain and quarrels with his own party, De Gaulle's insistent demand for big-power status. But serious headlines, based on the anxieties of the moment, are apt to obscure basic trends that move more slowly-slower trends that justified a more optimistic outlook in July...
Although the government said it had seized La Gangrène "to stress the infamous and lying nature of this libelous publication," inside the Cabinet angry protests against its seizure were made by André Malraux and Minister of Justice Edmond Michelet, a liberal Catholic who was once an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp...
What happens then? The ordinary cocktail-hour psychiatrist will have no difficulty understanding the professionals' explanation. The stress-blind personality creates for himself a "maladaptation syndrome," theorizes the University of Oklahoma's Dr. Stewart Wolf, in which increased blood cholesterol is a "biological adaptive mechanism for providing the body with fuel for extraordinary effort. Because the stress-prone individual is constantly striving and constantly frustrated, his body reacts as though he were constantly carrying a burden." The rise in blood cholesterol and lipides (fatty molecules) may increase the danger of thrombosis, particularly when other factors (heredity, diet...