Word: distress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texaco's stock for an average of $37 a share this year, many Wall Streeters applauded his gutsy vote of confidence in the bankrupt oil giant's chances for recovery. But after the October stock crash, Holmes a Court faced a severe cash squeeze. Sensing a distress sale, another renowned raider, TWA Chairman Carl Icahn, entered the picture last week. TWA bought about half of Holmes a Court's stake in Texaco for $348 million, or just $29 a share. The Australian's loss so far on his ill-timed oil-patch foray: some $100 million...
...intimated to have had sex with his mother, drunkenly, in the outhouse. Falwell was reading Hustleron an airplane one day, saw the piece, and became enraged. So now the question lies before the highest court of the land: are publishers liable for printing material which "intentionally causes emotional distress...
...word "intentionally" is crucial. Jerry Falwell causes severe emotional distress to many people every day, but he's not liable, because he's just being himself...
...fine. Well, not really. You see, Ms. Assistant, I am a senior at Harvard and it has recently come to my attention that my grade point average is slightly deficient vis-a-vis getting a diploma. As you can probably imagine, this is causing me a great deal of distress...
...event, Iowa voters were in no mood to be patronized on the economy, as Pete du Pont learned to his mild distress. Visiting a weekly newspaper in Onawa, du Pont depicted the stock market crash as a "vote of no confidence" by millions of small investors who did not like the presidential front runners in either party. Loren Sawyer, 27, whose mother publishes the paper, was not about to let that comment pass unchallenged. "I didn't know small, grass- roots investors pulled out," said Sawyer. "I thought it was the investment banks and large firms that panicked." Du Pont...