Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ethical issues surrounding abortion are debated openly, personal abortion anecdotes are in no sense an accepted topic of conversation. I did not feel comfortable talking about the situation with anyone but my closest friends. Constantly having to dissimulate my depressed and vulnerable emotional state only added to my distress. At the time when I most needed my peers to respect me and my moods, I was least able to express that need...
...pain by sensitizing nerves to other chemicals released from injured cells. Aspirin's most familiar benefits come from interfering with these noisome processes. However, prostaglandins are also responsible for stimulating the production of the stomach's protective lining of mucus, which explains why too much aspirin can cause gastric distress and bleeding. Aspirin's ability to prevent strokes and heart attacks stems from its disruption of a prostaglandin that promotes blood clotting. As for colon-cancer prevention, it is possible that aspirin inhibits substances that play a role in cell proliferation. At least one such prostaglandin has been identified...
...Berlitz International to Japan's Fukutake Publishing for $265 million. But there is concern that the easy asset sales may all have been done, says Jeff Matthews of the New York City firm Rocker Partners, which has in the past sold short Maxwell stock. "Future sales might be distress sales," Matthews suggests...
...neonatologist's first paper on the subject, co-written by Harvard colleague Jere Mead '43, was published in 1959. In the paper, the authors studied the surface tension of lung extracts prepared from babies with hyaline membrane disease, which causes respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and often leads to death...
...charges were far from the only ones leveled last week against B.C.C.I., which was shut down in July in most of the 69 countries where it operated. From Abu Dhabi to Zimbabwe, the repercussions of the bank scandal gathered force amid a new surge of allegations, investigations and financial distress. The depth and breadth of the mess prompted fresh questions about what government regulators should have done to prevent B.C.C.I. from growing into the largest corporate criminal enterprise in history. The major developments...