Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sanctions a chance. According to the administration's own intelligence sources, the economic embargo is begining to bite. Although economic sanctions have been historically less successful than some imagine, the unprecedented, near-universal international support for the current embargo might help it succeed where others failed. Even if economic distress cannot unseat Saddam, it can hamper his ability to wage war. The sustenance of the Iraqi population and the readiness of its fighting forces decline with each day they go without supplies from abroad. Four out of the last five Secretaries of Defense and the last chair of the Joint...
...ominous silence after distress calls from Amelia Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed 10-E Electra in the Pacific in 1937 touched off one of aviation's greatest mysteries. Last week the FBI confirmed that a likely clue to her last landing site had been found. It was an aluminum map case recovered by a group of aircraft archaeologists on Nikumaroro, an atoll 420 miles southeast of Howland Island, her destination...
India: A Million Mutinies Now is Naipaul's appreciation of how real, individual freedom, first sighted in the distance with India's independence in 1947, has begun to take hold in daily life, to break down the "layer upon layer of distress and cruelty." The result is messy, since those liberties give rise to a "million little mutinies," the colliding trajectories of countrymen shaking off the old mind-sets of caste and class. To Naipaul's solidly liberal sensibilities, that turmoil is what marks the road to progress...
Sleep-deprived workers may resort to alcohol and drugs as a way to compensate for fatigue. But the solution only compounds the distress. Many people wind up on a hurtling roller coaster, popping stimulants to keep awake, tossing down alcohol or sleeping pills to put themselves out, then swallowing more pills to get up again...
...most common sleep complaint is insomnia. About a third of Americans have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, problems that result in listlessness and loss of alertness during the day. Most of the time the distress is temporary, brought on by anxiety about a problem at work or a sudden family crisis. But sometimes sleep difficulties extend for months and years. Faced with a chronic situation, insomniacs frequently medicate themselves with alcohol or drugs. Doctors warn that in most cases sleeping pills should not be taken for longer than two or three weeks. Such drugs can lose their effectiveness with...