Word: distressingly
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...stalemate has been exacerbated by profound economic distress in the territories. For seven months, Israel, in response to terror attacks, has curtailed the number of Arab day laborers allowed to enter Israel, contributing to a 50% Palestinian unemployment rate. Netanyahu recently agreed to increase the permits for day laborers by 18,000 to 50,000. Still, economic growth is impeded by Israeli restrictions. Lengthy security checks mean few Palestinian goods reach the Israeli market, even as Israeli products flow freely through the crossing points. Palestinian trade with Jordan and Egypt is restricted, also for security reasons, as is commerce between...
Some 20,000 patients are killed every year by infections they pick up in America's hospitals. What made Strunk's case particularly significant was her husband's contention that Strunk died largely because the hospital staff members to whom she described her distress were not registered nurses but "patient-care technicians" who lacked the expertise to interpret her complaints. In 1994, the year of Strunk's operation, the Christ Hospital had turned to what management consultants call "patient-focused care," a system in which such bedside tasks as taking vital signs and answering call buttons are performed by unlicensed...
...Guard reauthorization bill. Tacked on at the last minute by a member of Shuster's committee, the amendment would, among other things, but most distastefully, shield cruise-line companies from lawsuits by women who are raped aboard their ships. Its wording allows the lines to escape liability for emotional distress and other noneconomic injuries as long as those injuries don't result from what is referred to as "substantial physical injury." Several Senators have threatened to filibuster the final bill if it contains the provision when it emerges from conference committee. Most cruise lines are already exempt from many...
...into the Hudson River. He stopped, handed his wallet to a bystander and leaped in after her. Although the impact knocked him out briefly, he reached Cappozza; a boat sent from shore pulled them from the water. Says Spring Valley fire chief Robert Schultz: "He saw a woman in distress and did what he is trained...
...Gussow's book the Irish actor Jack MacGowran says Beckett's subject was "human distress, not human despair." In fact, the Gate Theatre season--surely, in its scope, power and wit, this year's great theatrical event--proves that Beckett's subject was human beings. And Knowlson's biography proves that Beckett was one of them...