Word: distressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University--confident, according to sources, that the property was actually worth at least $750,000--took Cambridge to court, much to the distress of city officials who pleaded with Harvard to be satisfied with the $480,000 price...
...possibility of social unrest if unemployment rises to 3 million. I don't think there will be unrest. We have got this large figure of unemployment, which causes great distress. We try to alleviate it by every method possible. What we do is called selective help. Where areas are absolutely at their worst, we give special help. That's much better than just saying we'll flood the economy with printed money. The moment you pump in bad money it debases the value of good money. Before the end of this year there should be an improvement...
Typically, the strains of medicine are felt most acutely after ten to 15 years. Early signs of distress are extramarital affairs and physical upsets, including insomnia and diarrhea. Some suicidal physicians may also avoid social contact, draw up wills or make unexpected gifts. Says U.C.L.A. Thanatologist Edwin Shneidman: "If a colleague offers you his prized microscope, you might want to sit down with him and try to identify his problem...
This is the second in Clint Eastwood's "Philo and Clyde" series, which began two years ago with the enormously successful, whimsically reprehensible Every Which Way But Loose. Eastwood's Philo Beddoe is an amiable auto mechanic who hulks through the West saving damsels in distress and giving big bullies savage whuppings, the sound effects of which they will never forget. His menagerie includes a dotty ma (Ruth Gordon), a slow-witted pal (Geoffrey Lewis), a not-entirely-trustworthy girlfriend (Sondra Locke), a bumbling gang of neo-Nazi motorcyclists and an orangutan named Clyde, who steals the show...
These new administrators--whose average age slightly exceeds the national speed limit--share other traits as well. They are conservative, and they are distressingly corporate in their outlook. For the most part they shun leisure suits, which must distress Jerry Falwell and company, but their political philosophies seem very far to the right of skewed national spectrum. Actually, their political philosophies are comparatively unimportant--they seem sure to be loyal team players, who will follow the admonitions of a veteran leading...