Word: distressingly
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...economic period," said GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson. "We have said publicly, in comment to the Michigan [congressional] delegation's call for support of the industry, that we believe the Federal Government should consider all of the tools available to it - some recently enacted - to support industries that are in distress and that are essential to the U.S. economy," he said. On Thursday, those efforts got another boost as Governors from six states - Delaware, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio and South Dakota - submitted their own letter in support of the industry's aid request...
...been one of the best-performing asset classes for Harvard’s endowment, earning an annualized return of 28.5 percent over the past 10 years. This return has been lower in more recent years, though, coming in at 9.3 percent in fiscal year 2008, and the current economic distress may further drive down investment opportunities in the sector. But Primack said that the deal, which would be one of the biggest private equity sales ever by an endowment, might not go through because HMC’s position is still comfortable enough that it would not have to accept...
...nutritional value, and the notion that the cards were supposed to be some guide-at-a-glance for healthy choices was inherently problematic. In a way, instead of demystifying Chickwiches and ranger cookies, the cards took attention away from the food itself in favor of abstract numbers; the overwhelming distress the cards caused for people with serious eating concerns far outweighed the “benefit...
Shukla says if the situation does not improve, there could be distress sales within the next six months. The realty sector was heading for a cyclical slowdown even before the current economic slump. Over the past few years, increasing demand had pushed up prices, with speculators jumping in to further inflate the market. Eventually, inventory piled up when buyers refused to pay unrealistically high prices. "So many transactions were taking place between speculators and investors that no one bothered to find out what the end user, the family who would eventually live in the house, would be willing and able...
...bullish, he wrote to his shareholders that global markets looked "very treacherous" and warned about rampant borrowing "to speculate in real estate." In 2006, he derided the notion that "business cycles have been banished" and spoke of the danger of "extreme events in which the entire financial system experiences distress." He added: "The absence of fear continues to astonish me. I fear the absence of fear...