Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't feel upset about not being able to vote in this one election-I signed a union card today and will cast a ballot for the negotiating committee that will shape our contract and later for the leadership that will guide our union. Barry Glunt Harvard Medical School
While emotional concerns can upset this process, most trouble results from physical problems. In young men, injury is the main cause of loss of potency. "Coming down hard on the narrow seat of a ten-speed bicycle can damage the arteries or the nerves," says urologist Irwin Goldstein of Boston University School of Medicine, who recently chaired an international conference on impotence research. But the vast majority of impotent men -- most are above age 55 -- are victims of poor habits or illness. Alcoholism, for example, can deaden nerves. Cigarette smoking can reduce blood flow to the penis by constricting vessels...
Last year, an injury-depleted Harvard men's squash team captured a 5-4 decision over Trinity College...and Trinity was on top of the world. It had almost upset the team which had been ranked number one for six consecutive seasons...
...when you've been around for 19 years, you can sometimes reach into your bag of tricks and pull out a rabbit or two. And Friel did just that in the ECAC-North Atlantic Conference playoffs last year with a stunning upset over top-seeded Siena College...
...Their upset was understandable. As the world's premier facility for investigating the fundamental building blocks of matter and energy, the SSC -- or the Ronald Reagan Center for High Energy Physics, as its Texas boosters want to call it -- would attract the best experimental physicists in the world, with their attendant prestige. More important, it would give its home state a major economic boost. The machine's tunnel, a ring through which subatomic particles would race at nearly the speed of light, is to be 150 ft. underground and 53 miles in circumference; building...