Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...colleagues had great difficulty getting at the root causes of such behavior. Says Straus: "The reasons are mixed-psychological, sociological, situational." The head of the household, for example, may feel under particular stress because he has been out of work too long. Violence may also be an echo of the past. Explains Straus: "When Mommy gives her two-year-old a slap for putting something dirty in his mouth, he is learning from infancy that those who love you hit you." Another trigger may be war or inflation. Says Gelles gloomily: "If heating goes up to a buck a gallon...
Among the more candid Russians who came along, the worries drifted to the surface in their private talk. Brezhnev had flown over Eastern Europe, and the tremors from Pope John Paul II's visit were still in the air. The Soviet economy was in stress, nationalities more assertive. The old men seemed to have only one answer: more missiles, more tanks...
...quickly, the European airlines became restive. Reason: they did not want to keep the plane on the ground, especially during the peak season of tourist travel. Although one of every three U.S.-owned DC-10s inspected had flaws in the pylon mountings (such as cracks, corrosion and serious stress in the attachment bulkheads), no similar problems were found on the European crafts. Furthermore, the European lines fly almost exclusively advanced, longer-range versions of the plane, known as the series 30 and 40, rather than the older, shorter-range series 10, which was involved in the Chicago crash. The Europeans...
...there anyway?" Later the chairman produced a copy of a report from the FAA's regional office in Los Angeles, dated June 1, which noted that the flange on the aft bulkhead of the engine pylon-a part suspect in the DC-10 crash-may have cracked under stress. Bond admitted he had not seen the report. Burton stood again and declared acidly, "It would be helpful to the public if you read your own documents where they relate to the public's safety...
...Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. Both titles are held by a man of 72 who has eaten too much starchy food, smoked too many cigarettes and drunk too much vodka in a life full of stress, and who is now suffering from a variety of chronic neurological, respiratory and circulatory ailments. Brezhnev's physical condition has already severely drained his energy, slurred his speech and slowed his movements. It could kill or incapacitate him at any time...