Carrying too heavy a stress load is like running a car engine past the red line or leaving a toaster stuck in the 'on' position.

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It affects the stress or load on the bridge, and therefore, its lifespan and maintenance schedule.

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But if that game was the start of a trend, research by STATS suggests fans who stress easily might want to load up on Kava Kava or Valerian Root (since we only prescribe herbal remedies here at BracketRacket).

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Being simply a rotating horizontal shaft with a heavy vertical load on it, early locomotive axles suffered severe stress reversals in their outer skins with every rotation.

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Perhaps more troubling is that the extra homework load we subject our students to and the adolescent academic stress associated with it not only puts a damper on the after-school fun factor, but may also hurt their intellectual development.

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To help make this pill palatable to working-class investors, fund families often stress at some point there will be no big, one-time front-end load, such as the 5.75% sales charge for traditional Class A fund shares.

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Having now understood the house's behavior under stress, Kopp and his team will now set about recreate the experiment but this time measuring the load on the nails which lifted.

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