Word: distressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jury awarded Charlotte Walters $75,000 for emotional distress suffered because the University failed to adequately discipline male workers who harassed her at the workplace. The six-member panel concluded that Harvard's inaction was based on gender discrimination...
After two days of deliberation, however, the jury ruled that Harvard broke its contract with Walters by not treating her the same as men. Walters, who had asked for $300,000 in compensation for lost wages and emotional distress, was awarded...
...particularly healthy either. More and more employees are complaining that they are beset during deskbound hours by a panoply of miseries, from stuffy heads and watery eyes to nosebleeds, headaches and that just-plain-lousy feeling. Doctors and employers have long tended to dismiss such distress as hypochondria, but no longer. Increasingly, the grousing is considered to signal a real problem: indoor air pollution, or, as it is widely known, sick-building syndrome. Says Eileen Claussen, an official of the Environmental Protection Agency: "Pollutants in the indoor environment can cause a serious health risk...
True, the television announcers (or at least the ones Boston is saddled with) are outrageous, unrepentant "homers." Bob Cousy may say "we" when referring to the Celts on T.V., but even he is mild compared with these bozos who make no effort to hide their distress when the opponents score a goal, and who have consistently denigrated the Devils' play, even though the series was tied at 2-all going into last night's game...
Harvard attorney Allan A. Ryan. Jr. asked incourt motions that Garrity reduce the jury'sdamage award, claiming that under state lawemotional distress claims should not receivemonetary awards...