Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, there had long been signs of distress in Svetlana's life. Given to bouts of depression and heavy drinking, she had become increasingly reclusive and angry at the world. She told interviewers that she regarded the U.S. and the Soviet Union as equal menaces to world peace. In the U.S., she said, she felt she had moved "from one cage to another." She complained that she had not met the "kind of intellectual, highly educated people" who had been her friends in Moscow...
Amid much blathering commentary that night, NBC's John Chancellor was both candid and prescient: "In my judgment, the President got very tired at the end. He seemed quite disorganized in his closing remarks." The public felt that way too about the first debate. The widespread distress at Reagan's lackluster performance shook the press from its initial timid opinion that Mondale had won a narrow victory on "the debating points...
...Urban development Action Grants, enacted in 1977 and the only new domestic program put in place during the administration of President Jimmy Carter, provide $400 million each year for public development funds to cities in economic distress to leverage private job creating investment...
...needs of the economy force the Nationalist regime to give more education, economic opportunity, and ultimately power to nonwhites. Proponents of divestiture believe that real change will never occur by evolutionary means, whereas the withdrawal of American companies could produce widespread unemployment and economic widespread unemployment and economic distress that would either force the government to institute reforms or lead to a successful revolution...
Neither Ford nor Chrysler is in a position to earn windfall profits from GM's distress. Both companies also have low stocks of their popular models. Since both firms' assembly lines are operating at near capacity, they will not be able to increase production significantly to make up for the GM shutdown...