That kind of heat last week severely stressed crops and blotted up soil moisture in most of the nation's eastern half, the Federal Joint Agricultural Weather Facility reported Tuesday.

While frequent absences, long working hours, and Hansell's autocratic nature severely stressed their marriage during World War II, they remained married for 56 years until his death in 1988.

This can severely stress the tree's food reserves, and the older larvae can eat nearly all the remaining leaves, defoliating them.

Also, scientists know that the Sound was several degrees warmer than normal in 1999 and have proven that water that warm severely stresses lobsters in a lab.

Nitrogen acts as a fertilizer for algae blooms, which eventually sink to the floor of the Sound, decompose and consume oxygen in the water, severely stressing marine life.

It's clear from this data that the formation of the Siberian Traps created conditions that would severely stress life in the oceans through a variety of mechanisms.

Fundamentally, to assess the safety of a bank's asset portfolio and the adequacy of its Tier 1 capital (and Tier 2 capital), one needs to evaluate whether it is resiliant under severely stressing market moves.

Some of the transactions under these facilities provided liquidity to institutions whose disorderly failure could have severely stressed an already fragile financial system.