Word: distressingly
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...outdone, Chirac hopes to limit the damage when he launches his own campaign for the referendum on Thursday. He will answer questions on the private TF1 network from a studio audience of 18- to 25-year-olds. If he can cool the yes camp's sense of distress, the race could tighten...
Inspired by the finest 1950s junk fiction--Mickey Spillane's gun-crazy P.I. Mike Hammer and Al Feldstein's EC SuspenStories comics--Miller tells tales of misfit heroes seeking redemption by rescuing damsels in distress. Hartigan (Bruce Willis, untoppable at slipping into the skin of doomed tough guys) is a cop on a mission to save sweet Nancy (Jessica Alba) from a serial killer. Marv (Mickey Rourke, whose fallen-angel smile peeks through pounds of makeup) is an ex-con avenging the death of the one beautiful woman who ever did him a favor. Dwight (sturdy, haunted Clive Owen...
...starvation, Terri will most likely be treated for “pain or discomfort” and nausea which may arise as the result of the supposedly humane process of bringing about her death. (Remember that Schiavo is not terminally ill.) She may be given morphine for respiratory distress and may experience seizures. This protocol confirms what we have learned from famines and death camps: death by starvation is a horrible death...
...Smith Bournemouth, England The Foxhunting Ban In Verbatim, you quoted Nick Onslow, spokesman for the East Kent Hunt, about the last legal foxhunt before Britain's ban on hunting with dogs took effect [Feb. 28]. Onslow said, "It's a very emotional day. There are people who are in distress, but underlying that is anger. We are going to beat the government at this." Onslow's feeling about the slightly absurd hunting ban was typical of many. It will not protect foxes from being killed in other, less natural ways, but that is not the point. Hunting with hounds...
...escaped the horrors of industrial farming, either. Piglets have their ears notched, their tails cut off, their teeth clipped, and are routinely castrated—all without painkillers. They are then fattened up in concrete holding pens inside factory farm walls where their boredom causes fighting and psychological distress. These animals can never feel the earth under their feet, root, or even escape the nauseating stench of their own manure...