Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although many doctors have long advised women against having repeated C- sections, the high rate of surgical deliveries has continued for a number of reasons. Among them: advanced fetal monitoring, which is more sensitive to the signals of fetal distress; a trend toward larger babies, who are more difficult to deliver vaginally; and more requests from mothers exhausted by labor...
...three gray whales, they may have to face new, intensified dangers from polar bears and killer whales that might sense their distress, as well as the danger that they might again become lost or trapped by the ice. As naturalist Roger Caras remarked last week on Nightline: "They are exhausted, they are stressed, and they've got a gamut to run." Caras and others did not believe that Putu, Siku and Kanik would ever reach their wintering grounds off the coasts of California and Mexico. Meanwhile, conservationists and whale lovers might reflect on this conundrum: How can the human outpouring...
...Ralph Baruch, former president of Viacom International and now a senior fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies. "They didn't fully comprehend the extent of technological changes." Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family and now the owner of six independent TV stations, sees the networks' distress as retribution for their copycat programming. "If these guys were standing in a circle with razors at each other's throats," he asserts, "they could not be committing suicide more energetically...
DUKAKIS hopes that the dismal rural economy--as many as one out of every three farmers is in financial distress--will put farmers in the Democratic column. Bush is playing on farmers' social conservatism and distrust of a Northeastern liberal elite, while reminding them of the high interest rates and grain embargo of the Carter years...
Many local merchants blame their distress on Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's much-touted "Massachusetts miracle...