Word: distressingly
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However, GM, the only suitor to emerge this fall, has said it's no longer interested; another potential suitor, Russian tycoon Oleg Deripeska, is fighting to keep his own empire from being shredded by economic distress. Renault-Nissan, a third potential suitor, is pulling back in the face of what its chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, has warned could be a long global downturn...
Auto dealers are putting out their own message of distress. Annette Sykora, chairwoman of the National Automobile Dealers Association, said that with each passing day, more dealerships are closing and more people are losing their jobs. "We've heard encouraging words from the White House, but time is of the essence," Sykora announced in a written statement on Wednesday. This year alone, 900 dealerships out of 19,700 are expected to close. (See pictures of the most important cars of all time...
...self-injurious behavior and edited a book on the subject, Understanding Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (due March 2009), many do it for two broad reasons: to regulate their emotions and to communicate with others. "Self-injurers experience greater physiological arousal in response to stress, show poor ability to tolerate distress, and have greater deficits in social problem-solving skills," Nock explains, meaning that people self-injure to distract themselves from other emotional pain, to counter feelings of numbness or to let people know that they're suffering...
...Haller—who recently represented a tenant who lost heat, water, and access to his home after the bank changed the lock on the door—says that juries tend to be sympathetic to his clients. In this case, he was awarded over $50,000 for emotional distress and for the diminution of value of the property, and Haller says that there is a “good possibility” that sum will be doubled or tripled...
...second movement, described by Yannatos as Lear’s lamentation of his misfortune, the king begs his daughter Cordelia for forgiveness. The movement was immediately less agitated and more sad than the first. Trumpets and winds pierced the somber mood with high notes like pangs of distress, and as King Lear began to see more clearly (“Where am I? Fair daylight?”), the strings evoked the confused insight of the madman. When Lear pleaded to Cordelia, fleeting major chords appeared like glimmers of light, and then the movement ended with another uncertain evaporation...