Word: distressfully
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...video technologies made matters worse. Small children who repeatedly watch their favorite cassettes are, psychologists point out, behaving no differently from toddlers who want their favorite story read to them over and over. (The VCR may actually give parents more control over their kids' viewing.) Video games may distress adults with their addictive potential, but researchers have found no exceptional harm in them -- and even some possible benefits, like improving hand-eye coordination...
...Grove Village, Ill., ring softly every few minutes. Some of the youthful callers seem at first to be vulgar pranksters, out to make mischief with inane jokes and naughty language. But soon the voices on the line -- by turns wistful, angry, sad, desperate -- start to spill a stream of distress. Some divulge their struggles with alcohol or crack and their worries about school and sex. Others tell of their feelings of boredom and loneliness. Some talk of suicide. What connects them all, says Nancy Helmick, director of the two hot lines, is a sense of "disconnectedness...
Despite the urgency of the problems, only 1 in 5 children who need therapy receives it; poor and minority youngsters get the least care. Treatment is expensive, and even those with money and insurance find it hard to afford. But another reason is that too often the signals of distress are missed or put down to normal mischief...
...degree of many banks' distress depends on the condition of their regional economies. Texas banks, many of which collapsed with oil prices in the mid-1980s, are relatively healthy now. Says Bernard Weinstein, an economist for the University of North Texas: "The banking industry nationwide is in trouble, but Texas is a couple years ahead of the curve. Our economy is recovering. Our large financial institutions have all been recapitalized. Higher oil prices will provide enough stimulus to protect us from a recession...
Coetzee is at his most surefooted when he crisply narrates events, letting the horror speak for itself. Too often, however, he seems not to trust the reader, stating and restating his distress. The story is also gilded with tedious descriptions of Mrs. Curren's longing for her daughter, which rely on cliches such as "the blood tug of daughter to mother, woman to woman...