Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dollars in losses, and its mainstay 35-mm color film under attack from lower-priced Fuji Photo Film in the U.S. and a strong dollar abroad, Kodak said its 1997 operating earnings could fall as much as 25% below the results for last year. That marked the third distress flag on Kodak earnings this year and caused the company's stock to plunge $8.25 per share in two days. Kodak, which hit a record high of $94.75 in February, finished trading at $59.63 last week...
...Shakur concert is being appealed. Even Shakur's father is suing for a cut. The prize for the most bizarre suit, however, goes to antirap warrior C. DeLores Tucker, who claims that lewd remarks made about her on Shakur's album All Eyez on Me caused her so much distress that she and her husband have not been able to have sex. She wants $10 million...
...obvious (mis)identity, Mariah as Butterfly. Presumably, the title of the album was meant to connote a metamorphosis, an emergence of maturity from a long period of gestation and development. Sorry, dame. No dice. Mariah Carey needs to follow some of her funkier instincts and drop the damsel-in-distress pose; no one wants another Celine Dion. In the meantime, Mariah needs to slow down, grow up, branch out and create some sturdier, more lasting work. This one ought to be called Mayfly.Photo courtesy of Sony Records...
Miracle worker or not, Mother Teresa was now a media star. A decade after the documentary, she received the Nobel Peace Prize because "poverty and distress also constitute a threat to peace." At her request, the traditional banquet was canceled so the $7,000 cost could go to the poor. "We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us," she told the audience of rich and honored guests, "that they too have been created by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved...
After a three week trial in June, the jury ruled the University retaliated against Abramian for complaints about harassment and awarded him more than $270,000 in lost wages, $250,000 for emotional distress and $750,000 in punitive damages...