Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Britain's economic distress has been aggravated by lavish increases in public spending, which has risen from 44.2% of the G.N.P. in 1963 to an estimated 58.4% this year. Since tax revenues have not kept pace with this upsurge and Britain's balance of payments ledger has been almost constantly in the red, much of the difference between income and outgo has been made up indirectly by borrowing from abroad...
...official diagnostic manual, and for six years militant gays have objected to being considered mentally ill. In December 1973, the A.P.A. board of trustees voted to remove the label. "For a mental condition to be considered a psychiatric disorder," the board explained, "it should either regularly cause emotional distress or regularly be associated with generalized impairment of social functioning; homosexuality does not meet those criteria...
...freely. Bohan's coats have collars of red or silver fox; raincoats are lined and hooded in mink and moleskin; his anoraks are lined in seal or fox; sheer jackets are bordered in matching ostrich plumes. But if Bohan's clothes hurt the purse, they should not distress the conscience. Said a program footnote: "Christian Dior Fourrure hereby declares that none of the furs shown in the collection are on the endangered list of the World Wild Life Fund." Indeed, if their prices keep rising, the only endangered species in Paris may soon be the designers themselves...
This week as the train plays Peoria-literally-its tour is mirroring the nation in quite a different way: it is in deep financial distress, fast building up a deficit that could reach $2.5 million. Apparently the trouble began early with lavish expenditures to renovate the train and assemble the exhibits. On the road there were further problems: complaints that the admission was too high ($2 for adults, $1 for children), the 15-minute moving-walkway trip through the cars too brief (the walkways have since been slowed). Attendance was erratic: only 10,800 visitors per day turned up during...
Vacant Posts. A year ago, Seminex graduated its first 126 students. Challenging orders from headquarters, a number of district presidents found jobs for some of the graduates, and eight presidents even ordained them. In distress, the church's Council of Presidents turned to the Anaheim convention. By a vote of 626 to 466, the delegates passed a resolution ordering district presidents to require the endorsement of an official seminary before certifying candidates for ordination. Any president who does not do so must resign or have his office declared vacant...