Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be old, infirm and, inevitably at some point, near death. You may or may not be in physical distress, but in an age of crushing health-care costs, you will be a burden to your loved ones, to say nothing of society. And thanks to courts that back in 1996 legalized doctor-assisted suicide for the first time in American history, all around you thousands of your aging contemporaries will be taking their life...
...administration's new policy of total randomization seems at least partially, if not primarily, motivated by feelings of distress caused by the disproportionate number of black and Hispanic students that live in the Quad. Through total randomization of the house selection process, Harvard seeks to increase racial integration in the river houses. I am an African-American graduate student and a resident race-relations tutor at Eliot House, and I would certainly like to see more black students in the river houses. However, I don't believe that forced integration, with no attempt to change the underlying circumstances that caused...
...tempted to revive it in Susanna's case. Though a philanderer, the Count is fanatically suspicious of his innocent wife, the Countess (Kate deLima), and her naive admirer, the page Cherubino (Amy Buckley Brown); in his jealousy, he orders Cherubino off to the army, to the ladies' distress...
...constant expenses over last spring and especially this summer, and we were never in a state of financial distress," said Buchwald, who has also served as the committee's treasurer. "It wasn't until the house committee went dangerously low in our checking account that it came to light...
...letter said that, although the misappropriation "is causing no serious financial distress," the committee is working to recover the lost funds