Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rights of the Russian minorities there. Otherwise, Russia may take matters into its own heavy hands. If so, the world would surely suspend whatever help it is giving to any government in Moscow, which would only deepen the crisis in Russia and accelerate the vicious cycle of economic distress and political extremism...
Three such workers appeared before the management negotiating team at a bargaining session in July. Brought together again last week, the workers told tales of economic distress...
...preceding the trial, the defendant, El Sayyid A. Nosair, seemed headed for conviction on a second degree murder charge. The case was so stacked against him that his lawyer, noted defender of the legally oppressed William Kunstler, advised his client to plead insanity or at least claim extreme emotional distress in order to receive a lesser sentence. But Kunstler prevailed in getting his client off the hook regarding the serious charges...
...think the bishops have caved in to Vatican pressure." After agreeing to prepare the document in 1983, the bishops made an elaborate effort to hear out alienated women. Some 75,000 women offered written and oral testimony, and the first draft in 1988 was filled with accounts of their distress. That version urged rapid study of the idea of allowing women to be deacons, who perform many ministerial functions, and more leisurely consideration of priesthood...
...betting that the rebels within his party will return to the fold rather than risk a no-confidence vote that could lead to a new election and a possible victory for Labour. But the nation's distress over the economy and the Prime Minister's inability to do much about it make Major's bet a dangerous long-term...