Word: distressingly
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Both his new movies were called into question in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, which made Hollywood re-examine its product and marketing strategies. DreamWorks pulled ads for Last Castle that depicted an upside-down flag (though in the film, it's merely a sign of distress). Scott toned down some of the explosions in Spy Game. "Right now the scrambling [in the movie industry] has to do with, Is it gonna sell or not?" says Redford. "Moral concerns are overwhelmed by a larger concern, which is business. If this is a sustained mood in the country, then...
...current National Transportation Safety Board search for answers in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, which killed 262 people, is all of the above. Only more so. Usually some aspect of an accident "pops" early: bad weather and visibility; inoperative systems on the aircraft on the ground; a distress call from the pilots. In the case of AA 587, many experts first suspected trouble with the CF6 engines that powered the Airbus 300-600. Yet 48 hours after the accident, investigators have not found major engine problems. In fact, 587 so far, has shown precious little...
...informers trailed him. For two days the Taliban staked out the home where Haq was staying. Early Friday morning Taliban troops surrounded him on three sides. Cut off in the Khyber Pass, Haq placed a call on his satellite phone to his nephew in Pakistan; word of Haq's distress soon reached the CIA. As Haq tried to escape on horseback, the U.S. sent an unmanned Predator surveillance plane to shoot a Hellfire missile at his pursuers. It missed. Soon after the Taliban captured Haq. He was taken to Kabul and executed...
...attack is even affecting civil cases. Joseph Rice, a San Francisco jury consultant, says his mock juries are suddenly more skeptical of personal-injury lawsuits. They are coming in with lower emotional-distress awards in product-liability cases and telling him it's because the plaintiffs' pain and suffering do not compare to what they saw in the World Trade Center collapse...
...informers trailed him. For two days the Taliban staked out the home where Haq was staying. Early Friday morning Taliban troops surrounded him on three sides. Cut off in the Khyber Pass, Haq placed a call on his satellite phone to his nephew in Pakistan; word of Haq's distress soon reached the CIA. As Haq tried to escape on horseback, the U.S. sent an unmanned Predator surveillance plane to shoot a Hellfire missile at his pursuers. It missed. Soon after the Taliban captured Haq. He was taken to Kabul and executed...