Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME's economic-distress indicator, based on questions that gauge how many people feel they have been badly hurt by economic conditions, has stayed at 31%, almost exactly where it was during the last year of the Ford Administration. Only 33% of those surveyed have "a lot" of confidence in Carter's ability to handle the economy (but by comparison only 22% had similar confidence in Ford last October). More than half (54%) think inflation will stay the same-or perhaps get worse-during Carter's four years in office. Among the most pessimistic are Republicans...
...pastime, and Rolling Stone magazine is its chief practitioner in the rock music galaxy. Rolling Stone charts the position of the stars, focusing its telescope on the brightest novas and supernovas. One of its prime luminaries this year is Fleetwood Mac, a group characterized by professional success and personal distress. Since their 1975 bombshell Fleetwood Mac, Warner Brothers' all-time bestseller, three marriages inside the group have crumbled. Despite these marital problems, the beat goes on, as Fleetwood Mac has released a worthy follow-up album, appropriately entitled Rumours...
...disappoints me that even though we Canadians have aided you freezing Americans in such a time of distress, not one iota of coverage has been dedicated to our "deep-freeze." We're cold too, you know...
While a captive, Mme. Claustre said, she taught herself to read and write Toubou, the language of the rebels, and performed normal cooking and cleaning chores done by Toubou women. "They understood my distress," she said. "And I tried as much as I could to integrate myself into their family life...
Several professors at Harvard Law School expressed distress yesterday at Gary M. Gilmore's execution in Utah...