Word: distressingly
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...outpaces the group’s median return of -4.4 percent over the year. Financial markets have declined dramatically in the past 12 months as the effects of high rates of home loan defaults tore through the economy, wiping out billions in capital. Among the first casualties of the distress on Wall Street was Sowood Capital Management, a Boston-based hedge fund founded by ex-Harvard investment managers, that folded last July and took $350 million of Harvard’s money with it. Despite this early blow, Harvard Management Company, which invests the University’s endowment, credited...
...This song for a land in distress, with lyrics by the poet Abdel Rahim Mansour, comes from the 1982 film An Egyptian Story. It might have been the personal anthem of the movie's writer-director, Youssef Chahine, who died Sunday at 82, six weeks after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. His passing ended a busy, exemplary career that spanned nearly six decades making movies, myths and trouble...
...victims' representative in obtaining the restitution of their property. It has been established that my financial assets enabled me to easily maintain my position and in no way was there any difficulty discharging my obligations. Your August 9, 1982 article has caused me embarrassment and extreme distress in body and mind where I live, and indeed, all over the world. Stefania von Kories zu Goetzen Paris, France In TIME's article about the return of the stolen Salinas jewels and her arrest on charges of possession of the jewels, which were later dropped, it did not mean to suggest that...
...prosecution claims that Anne Darwin had not only duped police officers, but her own children as well. "She put on a great act," Robertson said. "Because of the distress apparently being suffered by Mrs Darwin, a police officer was appointed as a family liaison officer for her. Such was the act she was able to perform, this seasoned police officer was completely taken in. Throughout the period he was dealing with her, she kept up the facade that she was genuinely grieving for the death of her husband...
...Last March, Mosley invited five women to a posh Chelsea apartment to engage in what he readily admits was a sadomasochistic orgy, replete with canes, prison uniforms and old-fashioned spanking (a true Englishman, Mosley served the women tea after their session). To his ultimate distress, though, hidden cameras were rolling. The tabloid posted the footage online, accompanied by an article that described the event as "a depraved Nazi-style orgy in a torture dungeon." Mosley's wife of 48 years learned of her husband's sexual predilections for the first time, Formula One racers and sponsors called...