Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Economy With unemployment high, the dollar low and the stock market in distress, the economy will be Carter's sternest trial and the main focus of his policies this year. The $25 billion tax cut that he will propose this month is designed to revive business confidence, spark more spending on plant and equipment and head off a slowdown in growth that many economists expect late in 1978. Meanwhile, inflation shows signs of moving up again, fueled partly by measures that Carter either initiated or supported, including higher farm price supports and a steeper minimum wage...
...about the island's one famous resident: an 18th century female Robinson Crusoe who was washed ashore as the lone survivor of a shipwreck. She subsisted on food that floated in from the wreck, until a passing schooner spotted the bright yellow dress she had hoisted as a distress flag...
...them, he could no longer use the name. Think of the joy Carter's sensible proclamation would have brought to the parsimonious New Hampshirite who had to spend $26.23 in postage to mail the bulky forms for a license renewal for his small radio station. Pity the distress the Carter doctrine will cause the Occupational Safety and Health Administration bureaucrat who propounded the 39-word, single-sentence definition of EXIT: "That portion of a means of egress which is separated from all other spaces of the building or structure by construction or equipment as required in this subpart...
Husband Tom, an electronics engineer, decided that there must be a better way. After a few months of basement tinkering, he had the solution: a compact electronic device that anyone in distress could use to summon aid with no more than a press of the fingers...
...executed path. At this point, though, one begins to suspect that Darling has got her tongue in her cheek; the uncertainty of this, however, leaves viewers wondering whether they are wasting their time. The banality peaks at the soccer game: Caroline is in the stands, but to Elgin's distress the coach has kept him on the sidelines. suddenly, one of the players twists an ankle and is carried off the field. Elgin is sent in as a replacement and--you guessed it--saves the game. The film bottoms out when Elgin--teeth gritting and muscles straining--suddenly kicks...