What buoyancy there is in his life comes from an unflappable wife (Chiara Caselli) and their three daughters, and the sequences in and around their country house feel like a tranquil, not quite real respite from the pressures of work.

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Some blame the much-dissected dual pressures of home and work: Labor Department surveys consistently find that women do more at home than men, even when both are working paying jobs.

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The reasons the study sites are: no clear career paths, few role models, hostile work environments, isolation, unequal reward systems, extreme work pressures and lack of sponsorship and mentors.

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"In my conversations with Prime Minister Netanyahu, I was very clear about the need to stop settlements, to make sure we are stopping the building of outposts, to work with the Palestinian authority in order to alleviate some of the pressures that the Palestinian people are under, " he said.

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Conflict, or at least friction that sometimes flares into a burst of anger, is almost inevitable given the personalities and pressures at work.

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For a liquid piston to work, its surface must be stable in the face of rapidly changing pressures.

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Wage pressures and attrition are part of the reason IT-services companies are reaching out to establish work centers in places like Brazil and the Philippines.

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Without the pressures of being a public company, SAS is, among other things, a great place to work.

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This recession-age fable, which revolves around love, work, family pressures, and hidebound traditions, is set in contemporary Lisbon but breathes the air of a dreamy, timeless romanticism one that befits the long view of life taken by its hundred-year-old director, Manoel de Oliveira.

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