Word: distressfully
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...Pudding actor dressed in a puffy, fluorescent green dragon suit raced onto the stage and attacked Pomey--who played the damsel in distress...
...many must fend for themselves, struggling to survive. The trauma of losing parents is compounded by the burden of becoming a breadwinner. Most orphans sink into penury, drop out of school, suffer malnutrition, ostracism, psychic distress. Their makeshift households scramble to live on pitiful handouts--from overstretched relatives, a kind neighbor, a state grant--or they beg and steal in the streets. The orphans' present desperation forecloses a brighter future. "They hardly ever succeed in having a life," says Siphelile Kaseke, 22, a counselor at an AIDS orphans' camp near Bulawayo. Without education, girls fall into prostitution, and older boys...
...help them," insists Nelsen's daughter Mary, 26. "Let them manage on their own because it helps them build character. And only then will the lesson stick!" Once a shopaholic, Mary ran up so much credit-card debt that she could not meet the payments. Moved by her distress, her mother paid the bill, hoping Mary had learned her lesson. Instead she did the same thing again. The second time, Mary, soon to graduate from university, paid the debt herself and learned very nicely how to manage money in the process...
...Perry Molinoff and his colleagues methodically tinkered with a couple of molecules they had identified the old-fashioned way--by testing tens of thousands of compounds on cultures of growing cells. Among other things, they adjusted certain structural features to reduce the chance that the molecules would cause gastric distress and to increase the likelihood that they would cross over the blood-brain barrier. And all the while, they checked and rechecked to make sure that during this biochemical shuffling they did not lose the key property that made these particular molecules potentially so valuable: their ability to block...
That's because the distress is no longer confined to young dotcommers who got rich fast and lorded it over the rest of us. And it's no longer confined to the stock market. The economic uprising that rocked eToys, Priceline.com Pets.com and all the other www.s has now spread to blue-chip tech companies and Old Economy stalwarts. Now it's Microsoft warning, for the first time in more than a decade, that quarterly earnings will lag behind estimates. It's Union Pacific railroad announcing that 2,000 employees will be involuntarily disembarking. It's steelmaker LTV filing...