Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standard procedure to evacuate [buildings] when we receive calls of distress," Reardon said...
Some economists believe budget cuts create economic distress if they go too far, too fast. Senior Clinton economic adviser Laura Tyson last week claimed that the massive budget cuts the Republicans envision might tip the economy into recession. Such statements strike some analysts as politically driven, since the Administration only two years ago pushed through a $325 billion, four-year deficit-reduction plan that it claimed would lead to lower interest rates and a healthy economy. That assertion has since proved correct...
Dean of Undergraduate Education Laurence Buell argued for the measure at the meeting, saying that the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) had recommended it to reduce student and parental distress at the faintly pejorative ring of the words "General Studies...
...professor spoke out against the measure, saying that parental distress is not a good reason to remove the words...
...measure of a President's entire term comes down to his handling of a single crisis. At such moments, says Fred Greenstein, a political science professor at Princeton University, "you're suddenly reminded that the presidency is an institution that people turn to in times of crisis and distress." Two years earlier to the day, Clinton had fumbled his handling of one of the first crises of his Administration, the fiery raid by federal agents of the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas. On that day, Clinton all but disappeared from public view, leaving it to Reno, his new Attorney...