Word: distressingly
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...main source of the states' budget distress is plunging tax revenue stemming from the economic and stock-market downturns. State receipts, largely from sales and capital-gains taxes, fell 6% last year, the first decline in more than 50 years. The states are running an aggregate deficit that is expected to reach $68 billion by June 30. Not even a sudden economic revival would mend what amounts to bad luck (the recession) teamed with years of poor planning and an ancient state-tax system that largely ignores the fastest growing part of the economy: services...
...irony, not lost on observers from Wall Street to Washington, is that if the Bells' rivals stay in the business long enough and persuade wary capital markets to finance their separate networks, the Bells' distress could grow worse. Instead of getting paid a nominal amount by rivals who piggyback on their networks, the Bells would be getting almost nothing from customers they lose. Lawrence Babbio, president of Verizon, insists, "I'd rather take that risk [than see the situation persist]. It's a trade I'd make any day of the week." But Babbio knows it's not likely that...
...worried about impending terrorist attacks, although 56% remained at the same level of anxiety. The voice on the tape calmly and chillingly predicts that al-Qaeda's enemies "will be killed just as you kill and will be bombed just as you bomb. And expect more that will further distress you." While there's no real pattern in forewarnings from al-Qaeda, intelligence analysts take the words at face value. A recorded al-Jazeera broadcast from bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri in early October was followed by the deadly bombing in Bali that killed more than 180. The voice...
...base and strengthening Brazil's position in hemispheric affairs. But none of that will be possible by isolating Brazil from international investors, whose outlook may be more conditioned by the IMF orthodoxy of the recent past that has little sympathy for government spending on social programs to alleviate economic distress among the urban poor. Indeed, the socialist Lula's greatest challenge may lie in persuading local and international investors that his policies are the ones that will secure the long-term future of capitalism in Brazil...
...cruel, cloistered mind-set, as something more than horror-film sisters of Satan. (One literally carries a pitchfork.) Or is it to much to ask a committed filmmaker to offer sympathy for the devil? Is it possible, for that matter, to provide a lucid, nuanced portrait of children in distress? Yes, says Christophe Ruggia's Les Diables, about two abandoned kids - Joseph (Vincent Rottiers) and his autistic sister Chloé (Adèle Haenell) - searching for their home. Joseph is Chloé's protector and, if he were only old enough to realize it, her lover, with all the devotion...