Word: overworked
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Coverage in the Boston Globe highlighted the beliefs of several administrators and faculty members that overwork and stress were leading factors that contributed to Rudenstine's illness...
...Diet will lead only slowly, if at all, to new directions in the country's economic policies and social priorities. "I will believe in this talk of reform," says Makoto Sakata, a prominent Tokyo business writer, "when parties take up really fundamental issues like karoshi ((death from overwork)) and unpaid overtime...
...PROSPECT OF DEATH FROM OVERWORK IS COMMON enough in Japan that they have a word for it -- karoshi. When the term was recently given official international recognition, however, some image-sensitive Japanese officials were upset. The World Labor Report, published by the Geneva-based International Labor Office, cites karoshi as one of the consequences of stress at work. The report also contains a survey that says more than 40% of Japanese fear they may work themselves into an early grave. The Japanese Ministry of Labor questions the report's data and is filing a formal protest with the International Labor...
...immense volume of snapshots of the deceased. His sentimentalizing extends to their marriages, which he extols even as they cope with revelations of sexual infidelity and suffocating possessiveness. When the cheated-upon hostess is carried upstairs, hysterical, Colin assures the others she has always been high-strung from overwork at pleasing people. Ayckbourn too fiddles the emotional gears so deftly that the mood jolts from mirth to horror and back, sentence by sentence...
...overwork of "working mothers" and the marital strain of two-career families pose serious dangers to the modern family. Unfortunately, the staff seeks to heal society's wounds with a balm of dubious effectiveness...