Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...this a mind-expanding drug trip? A cult happening? The exercises mandated by an Indian guru? Not at all. The men and women at the Synchro Energize salon were engaged in a serious stress-reduction exercise, seeking to find greater serenity by donning special goggles that flash lights in the eyes and headphones that play tones and songs. This high-tech route to relaxation may sound far out, but it is starting to catch on. About a dozen stress- reduction salons have recently opened in the U.S., and they are beginning to spring up in machine-minded Japan...
...just a lure for aging hippies, the centers have attracted everyone from harried executives to anxious teens. The typical cost: $20 for a 45-minute session. While skeptics dismiss the machines as faddish electronic tranquilizers, many users swear by the technology's ability to ease stress. Several companies have brought out home models of stress-reduction units, costing from $99 to $600. Many sets include earphones, dark glasses with tiny bulbs inside and a computerized box that controls light-and-sound sequences...
...could be just another fleeting relaxation craze that attracts the curious and eventually bores them, like the flotation-tank phenomenon of the early 1980s. Not everyone likes the sensations the new stress-reduction machines produce. Complained a visitor to a Japanese salon: "It's like listening to an alarm clock all the time." Nonetheless, in this fast-paced era, professionals may turn on to new ways of combating stress -- especially since the habit will not show up in random drug tests...
...written by Dr. Jay A. Winsten, Director of the Center for Health Communication at the School of Public Health, and Dr. William DeJong, Director of Research at the Center, the report says that anti-drug advertisers should stress the positive lifestyle that accompanies a drug-free existence...
Cohen was determined to build a firm that would rival Merrill Lynch in size. In 1984 he orchestrated a $360 million merger between Shearson/American Express and Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. That move catapulted Shearson into the immensely profitable investment-banking business. But signs of stress began to appear in the wake of the 1987 stock-market crash, when Shearson paid nearly $1 billion to acquire E.F. Hutton. Dozens of top-notch Hutton brokers defected to other investment firms. At the same time, the firm suffered dwindling business from individual investors, on whom Shearson was still heavily dependent. Cohen, meanwhile...