Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that must be attended to promptly if they are to survive and those that will live or die regardless. The treatment most often called for by the victims of trading wars is protectionism. But as these examples make clear, unfair foreign practices are not always the real cause of distress, and trade barriers, while providing short-term relief, may in the long run be counterproductive...
...Versalles, the Montreal and the Principado. About six others reported less severe damage. At least ten major government buildings were affected, including the ministries of marine, labor and commerce, as well as the complex housing the state-owned Telefonos de Mexico. The destruction of government offices did not distress a cynical cabdriver, who commented, "Maybe there...
...seeking to explain the outbreak, some analysts pointed to the area's economic distress. Unemployment in Handsworth, for instance, stands at 36%, nearly three times the national average. Yet even the Labor Party opposition was reluctant to ascribe the rampage purely to economic conditions, and Thatcher, for her part, rejected the notion outright. She denounced those who blamed the riot on unemployment as "Moaning Minnies...
Foreign matters are striking home because a flood of high-quality and attractively priced imports continues to wash over the U.S., crippling entire industries and putting millions of Americans out of work. The clearest sign of distress is the burgeoning trade deficit, which measures the gap between America's exports and its imports. TIME's board estimated that the shortfall, which is expected to reach a record $150 billion this year, cut in half the growth in the U.S. gross national product during the first six months of 1985. Without that trade deficit, the U.S. would perhaps have had growth...
With so attentive an audience, Ballard, a devoted student of Titanic lore, could not resist bringing up a controversial subject: the actions of Stanley Lord, captain of the liner Californian, who Ballard said was definitely within reach of the sinking ship and may have ignored its white distress flares. Lord claimed at investigations of the tragedy that the Californian was more than 19 miles north of the sinking ship. "The Californian was inside of ten miles, perhaps as close as four miles," Ballard insisted, "and there is no doubt it could have gone in there and rescued those people...