Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said he thought the "likeliest explanation" for the damage was stress failure, perhaps compounded by maintenance problems. The ripping away of the fuselage skin appeared to have occurred along rivet lines, he said...
...week Michael Dukakis revealed that his wife was suffering from more than postdefeat blues. He explained that Kitty had checked into a private clinic in Newport, R.I., for treatment of an alcohol problem that had surfaced suddenly after the election. Said the Governor: "A combination of physical exhaustion, the stress of the campaign effort and postelection letdown all combined to create a situation in which, on a limited number of occasions while at home, she has used alcohol in excessive quantities...
Nonethless, a few members found McManus's cause in line with the organization's larger goals. And although members stress that the garage is only one of CCLN's causes, several say that it has helped to galvanize the new organization...
...meeting, the Advocate officers had a vigorous but informal debate about including books that Western readers have deemed offensive. In the course of that debate, we discussed and categorically dismissed the idea of reading child pornography in public. Mr. Lockwood's presentation of our debate was inaccurate and his stress on child pornography gratuitous and inflammatory...
Just surviving reading period is hard enough, so at the time you may have been too busy to question this long-time Harvard tradition. But now, with reading period safely behind us, it's time to look back and reflect on those two weeks of stress and agony that Harvard inflicts upon its students twice every year...