Word: distress
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...family and friends to recover from her loss. (This is not only a 2002 phenomenon, of course. The Sixth Sense and Crossing Over with John Edward both indulged our need to believe that our lost ones are still aware and, more important, still aware of us.) Women's nonmortal distress also got its share of attention, in two novels--The Nanny Diaries and I Don't Know How She Does It--that comically examined mothering anxiety (at least among affluent, educated white women), even as Sylvia Ann Hewlett was warning young women, in Creating a Life: Professional Women...
...members. Their political clout also helps them protect a chaotic gaming system that has served them well, one that is characterized by overburdened and underfunded watchdog agencies, a mishmash of regulations and a lack of financial accountability. As a result, Washington often ignores the needs of Native Americans in distress while assisting those who least need help...
Meanwhile, Cabot House Near Eastern Languages tutor Vivian L. Johnson said she saw no new reason for distress...
...main source of the states' budget distress is plunging tax revenue stemming from the economic and stock-market downturns. State receipts, largely from sales and capital-gains taxes, fell 6% last year, the first decline in more than 50 years. The states are running an aggregate deficit that is expected to reach $68 billion by June 30. Not even a sudden economic revival would mend what amounts to bad luck (the recession) teamed with years of poor planning and an ancient state-tax system that largely ignores the fastest growing part of the economy: services...
...irony, not lost on observers from Wall Street to Washington, is that if the Bells' rivals stay in the business long enough and persuade wary capital markets to finance their separate networks, the Bells' distress could grow worse. Instead of getting paid a nominal amount by rivals who piggyback on their networks, the Bells would be getting almost nothing from customers they lose. Lawrence Babbio, president of Verizon, insists, "I'd rather take that risk [than see the situation persist]. It's a trade I'd make any day of the week." But Babbio knows it's not likely that...