Word: distressed
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...degree from the University of Michigan in 1988) was a sexual-harassment claim of an unsophisticated woman against her powerful former boss. Coulter was one of a handful of informal legal advisers quietly helping Paula Jones, who had alleged in a 1994 lawsuit that she suffered distress and retaliation at her state job after refusing Arkansas Governor Clinton's request for oral sex in 1991. Coulter interviewed Jones and helped write her legal briefs...
...bill is in fact an anti-Mexican, employer-harassing measure. True reform and control would allow Mexicans to visit the U.S. legally for short terms. Such visiting workers are an essential source of labor in the U.S. for jobs shunned by Americans. Their earnings help to alleviate the economic distress of their families in Mexico, and they provide that country with much needed dollars for international trade. E. Manning Giles San Antonio
...years since Richard Babcock first mounted his pickup truck to rescue a colonial barn in distress, snatching a comely example of Scottish extraction, circa 1710, from the jaws of damp rot in Lenox, Mass. After eight months he had tenderly transformed her timbers into a family home in New Marlboro, 18 miles south. Thus was ignited the peculiar passion that, 75 recyclings later, still drives the master builder. "I'm an evangelist, truth to tell," he says. "Some men are called to save souls. I was called to save barns...
...this retribution has caused many from Boston-area colleges to question BPD’s logic: why should someone’s student status confer upon them extra punishment? Young professionals’ parents aren’t notified of their drunken antics, yet they presumably exist and cause distress for their neighbors when parties turn wild...
Goodwin’s lawyers argued that the university had denied Goodwin interviews and positions on the basis of unlawful discrimination. They asked the jury to award her back pay for the salary she would have earned had she been promoted, punitive damages, and compensation for emotional distress...