Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Councillors said the yellowish-brown water, which has effected Harvard dorms, "causes people great distress" and paraded out dirty filters coated in black grime from the city's reservoirs...
...sudden cessation of coffee consumption. In the experiment, people deprived of caffeine complained that they felt worse than when they had the flu, and one woman noted the sickness was as bad as what she experienced while undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for cancer. Caffeine withdrawal may explain the puzzling distress some people suffer following surgery (pre-op procedure often prohibits food or liquids), or on weekends (no office coffeepot), or during visits with people who prefer decaffeinated beverages. The findings, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine by a Johns Hopkins University team, may apply equally to moderate drinkers...
...cargo crashed into a 10-story low-income apartment building in southeast Amsterdam. Laden with fuel and 114 tons of commercial cargo, the freighter had taken off from Schiphol Airport at 6:22 p.m., headed for Tel Aviv. Six minutes later, veteran pilot Isaac Fuchs issued a distress call, reporting a fire in a right-wing engine. As he circled back for the airport, dumping fuel in preparation for an emergency landing, he radioed that a second engine had failed. "Going down! Going down!" Fuchs' words, monitored by the control tower, had a chilling simplicity. Seconds later, the giant plane...
Germany accused the British of being bad Europeans for harboring suspicions about their Community comrade. Then it validated the British suspicions by planning a major celebration of the Nazi invention of the V-2 rocket, which caused so much destruction and psychological distress in Britain at the end of World War II (after howls of protest, Germany decided to cancel the "celebration...
...turmoil that for millions of individuals is approaching panic," according to labor consultant Dan Lacey, publisher of the newsletter Workplace Trends. Official statistics fail to reveal the extent of the pain. Unemployment stands at 7.6%, far lower than the 1982 high of 10.8%, but more people are experiencing distress. A comprehensive tally would include workers who are employed well below their skill level, those who cannot find more than a part-time job, people earning poverty-level wages, workers who have been jobless for more than four weeks at a time and all those who have grown discouraged and quit...