Word: distressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More signs of distress surfaced last week. MGF Oil of Midland, Texas, said it lost $80.3 million in 1982. The troubled exploration and drilling company, which is trying to restructure its bank debt, already has slashed its work force by two-thirds, from a high of 1,400, and is operating only seven of its 46 rigs. Says Executive Vice President Phillip Marcum: "You should be prepared for a minimum of two years of this. Three to five years would be better...
Such conservative distress is not new. A longtime target of complaint is the World Council of Churches, to which many major U.S. denominations also belong but which is separate from the N.C.C. For 13 years the W.C.C.'s Program to Combat Racism has given regular grants to African guerrillas righting to overthrow repressive white regimes. The W.C.C. says it does not "pass judgment on those victims of racism who are driven to violence as the only way left to them to redress grievances." The money is intended for welfare, not arms, but churches do not monitor...
...complained to associates, did not have the courage to ask her to quit, Burford remained steadfastly loyal to the President. "I love that guy," she said, "and I'd be proud to serve him any place." The affection was mutual. Notoriously reluctant to cut loose loyal aides in distress, Reagan continued to insist in his press conference on Friday that Burford was a martyr hounded to resign by environmental activists and a scandal-hungry press. He called her "a far bigger person than those who have been sniping at her with unfounded charges ... I wonder how they manage...
...Astronauts Bill Lenoir and Bob Overmyer experienced nausea and vomiting during the fifth flight of the Columbia last November. Lenoir's distress helped force changes in planned space tasks during the five-day mission. Space sickness, renamed by NASA "space adaptation syndrome" (SAS), was recognized only a decade ago. Says former Astronaut Mike Collins: "We didn't have much of a problem with space sickness as long as we were strapped in Mercury and Gemini. Same for the Russians. It's when we all began floating around in Skylab and the Russians in Salyut that the guys...
...York approved still another approach. The case grew out of the notorious 1977 hammer killing of Yale Student Bonnie Garland by Richard Herrin, her jealous exboyfriend. The judge upheld a jury award of $30,000 to the parents against Herrin, ruling that he recklessly caused severe emotional distress. Says Bonnie's mother Joan: "Now a criminal can't 'I have no responsibility for the damage I've done...