Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Small had the bad fortune to be shopping at World Bazaar that night, Mack had the good luck to have a brother married to Congressman Jim Wright's daughter. Mack was arrested and pleaded guilty to malicious wounding with intent to kill, saying stress made him do it. Mack was offered a job by Wright after sentencing, and ended up serving 27 months of a 15-year term in the relatively soft confines of the county jail rather than the state penitentiary...
...blames the problems her rooming group had on the first-year stress of being placed in a room with strangers, but feels these normal problems were accentuated by her race...
Like the ever expanding white-collar workday, this stage of family evolution defies all the expectations of a generation ago. For years, stress research tended to focus on men, and so the office or factory floor was viewed as the primary source of tension. The home, on the other hand, was a sanctuary, a benign environment in which one recuperated from problems at work. The experts know better...
Parents know all too vividly the effects of the stress they endure in order to keep up with their lives. Addiction to a speeded-up schedule can lead to a physical breakdown from hypertension, ulcers, heart disease, or dependence on alcohol, cocaine and cigarettes. The effect on the psyche is subtler and more insidious. People find themselves growing impatient and restless, and it seems harder to think logically about a problem. Even if two hours miraculously open up one evening, they may be spent watching TV, since people are too tired to do much else...
...glib answer most often boils down to women withdrawing from the work force and returning home, thereby easing the time crunch for the whole family. But it is almost never that easy. After 20 years of studying women and stress, Wellesley College researcher Rosalind Barnett has found that alcoholism and depression in women are less frequent among those who work. Nor could most families afford to have one spouse give up working. And the American economy could not stand the hemorrhage of so much talent from its work force...