Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is exactly what he did at high noon on Wednesday, April 2, 90 min. into an air exercise that left from Arizona's Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. He showed no signs of distress, signaled no one and failed to respond to a radio call from the lead aircraft on the mission. The missing plane, a heavily armored, low-and-slow-flying machine known as the Warthog, emitted no tracking pings because only the lead aircraft on an exercise uses its transponder. But Air Force officials have traced Button's flight 800 miles northeast from Arizona through a corner...
...loop." But of course, he didn't really. At one point, Reich describes waiting in a small anteroom outside the Oval Office with economic advisers Robert Rubin, Laura D'Andrea Tyson and Gene Sperling, only to learn from CNN that Clinton had fired chief of staff Mack McLarty. "Our distress has nothing to do with the merits of the decision...What's so galling is that the decisions were made without any of us having a clue...At this moment we are inches away from the Oval, and yet we might as well be in Tahiti...
Saying Harvard pays its junior faculty far below market rate and does not make enough offers of tenure, they voiced distress that many talented junior faculty turn down offers from Harvard or leave the University as a result...
...cell-phone industry is treading cautiously. One trade group conceded the findings but stressed that phones could also enhance road safety by allowing drivers in distress to call for help. Even the Journal study did not say the phones were responsible for the accidents, but that they were merely associated with them. And Michael Goodman, a researcher with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, concurred, pointing out that the nature of a call--an argument, say--could be more distracting than the call itself...
...males with an aggressive bent, such a powerful simian sisterhood spells trouble. If a sexually mature bonobo male shows a female unwanted attention, she has merely to sound a distress call to bring an avenging group of females quickly to the scene. Males that misbehave in a nonsexual setting--say, at a feeding site, where they may try to hoard a cache of fruit and prevent other troop members from approaching--are similarly intimidated or chased off. Even males that reserve their aggression solely for one another find their behavior utterly unrewarded. The whole purpose of such mano a mano...