Word: everydayness
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...know how to think about health and illness. Our reactions are formed on the terror level. We fear the worst, expect the worst, thus invite the worst. The result is that we are becoming a nation of weaklings and hypochondriacs, a self-medicating society incapable of distinguishing between casual, everyday symptoms and those that require professional attention...
...need not wait, of course, for a catastrophic illness before we develop confidence in our ability to rise to a serious challenge. Confidence is useful on the everyday level. We are stronger than we think. Much stronger...
Instead, his dogma is simple. He has little patience for those who refuse to acknowledge the struggle and suffering that dog the lives of human beings everyday throughout America's cities...
...everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency. One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while...
...been a thriving retailer renowned for its management acuity. When the company bought the 392-store Zayre chain for $800 million, Ames closed many unsuccessful outlets and introduced more national brands. But Zayre's patrons, who were used to periodic deep markdowns, disliked the new Ames policy of everyday low prices. Customer loyalty was further eroded when managers decided to change the name of some Zayre stores to Ames. Result: the company lost an estimated $228 million last year. The chain, which has 55,000 workers, now hopes to trim its operations...