Word: distressingly
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House courtyards should also provide a refuge for students concerned about their surroundings no matter which House they inhabit. Additionally, further access to internal entries and hallways provides yet another level of protection for those in distress. True UKA helps, not hinders safety...
...which both Abigail (who thinks Gates is talking to her) and Riley reply, “I will.” Laughter ensues. In this moment and others the film so badly wants to supply Abigail with some sort of useful masculine agency. Unsurprisingly, she becomes a damsel in distress soon enough, and Cage pumps up the virility. Riley, of course, is left on the sidelines as a site of emasculation and phallic failure. The end of the film affirms these yawn-inducing gender politics when Riley complains that he only got a tiny bit of the reward because Gates...
...performance is a profound delving into the problem of Medea. The narrative is reduced to short, non-chronological scenes as sparks to illuminate the greater story. It is as if the scenes are coagulations of the blood spilled so many years ago, visible manifestations of suffering and distress...
...Although overall the club does not appear to be in any immediate financial distress, Wong, 65, says that if racing revenues fall to $6.4 billion?not unrealistic at the current rate of descent?charitable contributions will have to stop. To keep that from happening, the club is calling on the government to?of course!?reduce the gambling tax. On average, 13.5% of every bet is skimmed off by the taxman. Wong, a Michigan State University engineering graduate who worked for 30 years at Ford Motor Co. before becoming jockey-club CEO in 1996, says that rate is among the highest...
...made public relations disaster. Still, Palestinians were in love with him, madly in love with him. He was like that brother who embarrassed you in school and in the neighborhood. But no matter what he did, you were crazy about him. Maybe because in times of distress he gave you faith. And that victory sign he always flashed—no matter how unrealistic it was—gave you hope. And more than hope. It gave you pride, that pride that emerges when you still dare to stand up after being hammered and crushed and killed so many times...