Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nothing and everything," Holmes assured him. "The white rim of Alka-Seltzer around your lips informs me of your gastric distress; the dark circles under your eyes broadcast sleeplessness; the shiny knees of your trousers bespeak prayer in the office...
Calling the mysterious erasure "a source of great distress," Haig reported that government lawyers speculated that "perhaps some sinister force" had applied the other energy source and taken care of the information on that tape...
...third level of argument is the most difficult and most important. It is true that many radicals enter political groups partly out of feelings of personal distress. The question is how such problems relate to the group's goals; specifically, is a group's political ideology any less "valid" because people have deeply personal reasons for wanting to join the group...
...asked for full production. That was just before the 'green revolution' took hold in India and Pakistan and demand in the U.S. slowed down." The miscalculation created enormous surpluses-and low prices for farmers. But, Butz claims, "the situation is different now. In spite of the current distress in the Middle East, there is a worldwide boom in purchasing power, more stable conditions and long-range prospects for easing of tensions like we haven't had in years...
...adept: they learn to be the managers of their own self-introspection and self-accusation. Should they become intolerably disturbed, someone in the Mental Health Department of the pre-paid medical plan will tell them that their guilt is of neurotic origin and ought not be given opportunity to distress them. Guilt, in any case, they will be told, is not "productive." Skull of infant, blood and bone, the desperation of young mothers in the back-street clinic of the Boston slums: it does not go with sherbet and seersucker...