Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evening newscasts, too, stars are being hyped more than ever. Facing growing competition for the news viewer -- from cable outlets like CNN, aggressive local stations and syndicated shows -- the networks are trying to stress what makes them distinctive: namely, their anchors. That's why Rather, Jennings and Tom Brokaw can be seen jetting off to Eastern Europe or China whenever the President (or a Soviet leader) hops an airplane. Network executives gamely defend such trips on journalistic grounds, but they are primarily promotional gimmicks meant to showcase the network's resident Bigfoot. "We're almost defining news in such...
...What do you know a lot about? What did you study last year?" my mother asks, as I stress over my T-less state...
...that someone poured the potent herbicide Velpar in a circle around the tree early this year, committing a "malicious act against an innocent creature," said city forester John Giedraitis. When the tree shed beads of sap, he said, "it's weeping. This tree is under a tremendous amount of stress." Velpar maker Du Pont has put up a $10,000 reward for the capture of the tree's poisoner. Says a poster at the tree: HANG HIM FROM THE HIGHEST LIMB...
Western experts have long had reservations about Soviet reactor design, but deficiencies may be even worse in the areas of fire prevention, systems monitoring and damage control. The most recent accident indicates that the Soviet navy may be facing another problem common to all sub fleets: long-term stress in aging vessels. The Echo IIs were built in the early and mid-'60s; last week's accident could point to insufficient maintenance...
Vidia, as he is known to friends, operates at a high level of stress. It may be genetic, he suggests, sadly recalling that his brother Shiva, the novelist and journalist, wrote him shortly before he died of a heart attack three years ago at the age of 40 that "anxiety was his truest feeling." Apprehension also comes with the territory. Naipaul was born an outsider 56 years ago in the British colony of Trinidad. A member of neither the white ruling class nor the black majority, he was part of the island's large, self-contained Indian community...