Obuchi had been hospitalized due to "fatigue from overwork, " announced the chief cabinet secretary, Aoki Mikio.
But overwork is perhaps the least of the challenges when we blend work and home.
You can also form an alliance with a colleague to mutually stage the appearance of overwork.
If colleagues and everyone else try to keep up, it can drive everyone into stress and overwork.
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When crew members get debilitating injuries because of overwork and exhaustion, they are left in their home countries.
Even if you don't overwork your pancreas, you're probably not eating enough calories on an all-fruit diet, Moore says.
One of Warburg's maxims was that bankers never got ill from overwork, but only from bad organisation or bad business.
Soon after operations started at both Shaanxi and Chongqing Konka, workers left by the dozens complaining of overwork and low pay.
Entrepreneurs are not the only ones at risk of the overwork trap.
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Providing inspiring and practical solutions to the very real problem of overwork can help brands tap into a deep emotional and physical need.
They have no personal recollection of the years in which at least 1.7 million were killed or died from starvation, medical neglect or overwork.
Apple got some bad press in January related to fires at the Foxconn factory along with the suicides and overwork of its young employees.
And in rolling out the dough, the tapered shape makes it easier to work on it in quarter-turns so as not to overwork the center.
Energy analyst Philip Verleger worries that high prices last year may have caused refiners to overwork their facilities, setting the stage for more trouble this year.
Although pitchers last year spent 29.1% more days on the disabled list than they did in 2003, most orthopedists blame that on overwork, not rising velocity.
Whether or not overwork contributed to his illness, what is certain is that Obuchi was carrying a particularly demanding load in the days preceding his hospitalization.
The moral of the Rifkin story is that America is hooked on overwork and excessive consumption, while the Europeans have their lives in balance and are nicer to animals to boot.
But Drucker also urged those complaining of burnout and exhaustion to examine whether overwork or sleep loss was the real problem or whether they were just sick of their jobs.
But in the extreme overwork of the last few years, with everyone putting in longer hours and busier days, lunch dates, casual banter, friendly drop-ins slipped, if not disappeared entirely.
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The slaves were frantic at the prospect of being sold away from Maryland to the Deep South, where it was well known that overwork, the grueling climate, and disease shortened lives.
At least 1.7 million people -- nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population -- died under the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime from execution, disease, starvation and overwork, according to the Documentation Center of Cambodia.
Even now, though, it is unclear who will face trial in connection with the 1.7m people who died from starvation, overwork, disease and execution when the Khmers Rouges ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
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This sort of humility might let Mr Brown appear to participate in the general pain: surrendering his pride might be a better form of kindred suffering than the sleepless overwork that often leaves him looking greyly gaunt.
Due to her position as a woman, she suffers from a lack of income security, lack of understanding from institutions, lack of external support, emotional solitude and overwork, all of which prevent her from achieving personal fulfilment.
Perhaps hitters are less frustrated, but you have to wonder if part of the reason beyond overwork for more teens getting Tommy John surgery is trying to come up with pitches to get past very forgiving composite bats.
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If you can only handle five of seven tasks, for instance, that's something you need to talk to your boss about, says Ms. Klaus, who had a client who got saddled with two jobs and ended up hospitalized because of stress and overwork.
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But a majority of the country's artists were some of the at least 1.7 million people -- nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population -- who died under the Khmer Rouge from execution, disease, starvation and overwork, according to the Documentation Center of Cambodia.
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We also live in a competitive society, and so by lamenting our overwork and sleep deprivation -- even if that requires workweek inflation and claiming our worst nights are typical -- we show that we are dedicated to our jobs and our families.
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