Word: distressful
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...government is better than less. And why not? In this time of economic chaos, finance ministers and central bankers around the world have appeared the only bulwark against complete financial collapse - a slide-rule cavalry, armed with billions as bullets, rescuing banks, insurance companies and other corporate damsels in distress...
...interview with TIME at the height of the panic last month, Geithner described the process of balancing technical indicators of market distress with the human factors affecting the crisis. "Our job is to figure out what the system can bear and mitigate the panic, and we don't depend on what people tell us about that to make those judgments," Geithner said. "But you can tell a lot from what's in someone's voice. And when you have [the leaders of] what are, without a doubt, some of the strongest, best-run institutions in the world [on the phone...
...think the credit-card industry will implode," says Ronald Mann of Columbia Law. Issuers have been taking steps to mitigate risks like scaling back credit lines and closing out accounts for cardholders exhibiting distress. "Sure, they're likely to have a bad year," he says, "but lots of people will...
...filmmakers who have the credibility. It’s Jigsaw. Nowhere in “Saw” is there one shred of doubt that every single one of Jigsaw’s victims deserves what he gets. We don’t delight in their distress per se, but there is a wholesome schadenfreude in seeing the guilty squirm...
...certain—if you’re either a woman or a person of color, you aren’t going to get much stage time. It’s an unfortunate trend throughout Western theater: typecasting often places women into roles as either sexualized damsels in distress or desexualized comed relief, while black characters are often marginalized altogether. To offset these outdated limitations, BlackCast has reworked the script’s basic structure and implemented gender- and race-blind casting. “Too often directors are too strict in their interpretation of the play...