Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poland. Haig argues that forcing U.S. banks to call a default on their loans to Poland would distress the allies without helping to moderate the behavior of Warsaw's martial-law regime. Weinberger considers default a potentially usable option. Says one State Department official: "Cap wants to engage in economic warfare. He wants to hurt the other...
...Such distress is inevitably politically devastating; just ask defeated presidents Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter, both of whom were done in by blue-collar unemployment. Blue-collar unemployment under Ford hit 11.7 per cent, lingering at 9.4 per cent on election day. Under Carter, the figure rose from 6.9 per cent in 1979 to 8.9 per cent for the first five months of 1980. Ronald Reagan doesn't face the voters for two and a half years, but unemployment highs under him already exceed marks of his two ill-fated predecessors. The severity of the nation's economic crisis threatens...
...seem concerned about whether the economy dips the government falls or the shootouts take place in the Prime Minister's Chigi Palace. Italy is a living paradox: the more its political and economic life deteriorates, the more its citizens seem to enjoy la dolce vita. As distress from terrorism or corruption grows, ordinary Italians are withdrawing into individualismo, which means ignoring the social structures and doing one's own thing, and familismo, or pulling back into family togetherness. Such universal disengagement does not shatter the nation. Instead, it keeps Italy functioning remarkably well. Explains Author Italo Calvino: "Italians...
...decisive moment had been reached in Poland's 15-month labor crisis and that the government--now military government--of Communist party chief and Prime Minister Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski decided it could no longer tolerate Solidarity's unprecedented and increasingly bold challenge to Communist rule amid widespread economic distress and persistent demands from the Soviet Union to firm up the "weak link" in the Warsaw Pact chain...
...Criticism. I thought of myself as a species of knight-errant attacking dragons singlehandedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress...