Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tactic. In April, 64 members of the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union stormed the North Carolina golf course where the Greensboro Open, an event on the Professional Golfers' Association tour, was in progress. They were arrested, but their protest was splashed all over TV and local papers -- to the distress of their employer, K Mart, which spent $2 million to sponsor the event. "Our bargaining leverage improved dramatically," says Bruce Raynor, ACTWU executive vice president...
...harassment because she was an Arkansas state employee in 1991. After refusing Clinton's advances, she says, she was treated badly at work, transferred and denied promotions. Because the federal statute of limitations bars harassment suits after six months, Jones is suing instead for infliction of "emotional distress," as well as deprivation of civil rights and defamation...
...case challenging an alleged a pattern of gender bias, a former administrator at Yale Medical School is suing the university for employment discrimination based on sex and age, retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress...
...Experiences where students' self-esteem wasthreatened--such as doing poorly on an exam,getting bad feedback from a TF, feeling bad afteran MCAT--caused dieters to binge," Heathertonsays. "Distress interferes with people's abilityto self-regulate their behavior...
...distress, Escobar was growing panicky about the safety of his family. In recent weeks, his brother-in-law had been killed by police and his children's teacher had been murdered by PEPES, a vigilante group thought to comprise former colleagues whom the drug lord had betrayed, but also to include hit men from the rival Cali drug cartel. Fearing they would be next, his wife and children fled early last week to Germany, seeking asylum; they were promptly deported back to Bogota...