Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chrysler president Bob Lutz says competition among the Big Three is no longer aimed solely at creating distress or celebrating the misfortunes of their rivals. "Many of us are at the point where we celebrate each other's successes. We were pleased to see Cadillac's Seville come out as an American luxury car that can hold its own against the best of the imports. Many of us were pleased with Saturn. I know Detroit executives were pleased when we brought out the Viper ((high-powered sports car)). It was, goddam, that's great...
...threat concerning the closure of the museum stems not from Professor Stager's actions but from the financial distress incurred by Father Carney Gavin (Curator and Executive Director) and his staff. The current staff of the museum consists largely of individuals untrained in museum studies or conservation. Furthermore, the level of pay garnered by these individuals ($375,000 divided among 6.34 employees) is vastly out of proportion to their training and the pay of similar position at other University museums, where generally such positions are filled by faculty or specialists in museum studies. It seems that many of the financial...
...bathroom philosophy or desktop distress, Harvard graffiti begs the question, so aptly asked in the Adams Tunnels...
...they love to stargaze. They will put an attractive actress on-screen for 1 1/2 hours and mostly . . . just . . . watch . . . her. She poses at a window, she listens to the phone ring; in a moment of high agitation she may drag on a Gauloise. A vision of dyspeptic distress, she is a modernist pinup for the monastic voyeur behind the camera. When the woman is lovely, pouty Juliette Binoche, and the director is Krzysztof Kieslowski, the picture can become the X ray of anguish: not stargazing but soul gazing...
Donning a real sword for Halloween, junior Kwame van Leeuwen, a world championship fencer, appropriately chose to be Zorro, the master of drape swinging and savior for those in distress...