Word: distress
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...suggested I run to the bathroom and when I came back just situate myself nearer to him and engage in a new conversation, which is just what I did. Again, there was nothing inappropriate about him, he seemed to just be helping out in a possible "damsel in distress" situation...
...damages to three sick smokers. And Philip Morris, Liggett, et al. would have been more than happy to see the case end there. Unfortunately for them, there are a lot of sick and dying smokers out there, and the majority of Americans are not particularly sympathetic to cries of distress from fat cat CEOs who make a living selling a poisonous product...
...High School graduate says he has trouble keeping his operation running smoothly because "I can't find enough people who can multiply seven times four." Nor can he readily recruit young executives from outside the area after they learn that the state put Osceola's school district on "academic distress" two years ago, when only 33% of 11th-graders could read at grade level, and only 8% were up to par in math...
...nights ago, McMillan says, a friend of hers, who lives quite close to Sage's and has trouble walking, called her "in distress...
...have we responded to four decades of ever louder distress signals? We've staged a procession of Earth Days, formed Green parties, passed environmental laws, forged a few international treaties and organized global gabfests and photo ops like the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. All the while, the decline of Earth's ecosystems has continued unabated...