Word: distressingly
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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. yesterday denied suggestions in The New York Times that he and business partners sold the educational website Africana.com to Time-Warner because it was in financial distress...
...right in. But the fellow was smoking. And he put the cigarette--still lit--into his pants pocket because my father didn't smoke and didn't approve of people who did. And he stood there as he talked to my father, with his pocket burning, obviously in some distress. And finally he finished the business and walked out. And I was really shocked. And I said to my father quite angrily, 'Why did you do that to him? You made him put his cigarette in his pocket.' And my father looked at me and really gave me a lecture...
...suggested I run to the bathroom and when I came back just situate myself nearer to him and engage in a new conversation, which is just what I did. Again, there was nothing inappropriate about him, he seemed to just be helping out in a possible "damsel in distress" situation...
...damages to three sick smokers. And Philip Morris, Liggett, et al. would have been more than happy to see the case end there. Unfortunately for them, there are a lot of sick and dying smokers out there, and the majority of Americans are not particularly sympathetic to cries of distress from fat cat CEOs who make a living selling a poisonous product...
...High School graduate says he has trouble keeping his operation running smoothly because "I can't find enough people who can multiply seven times four." Nor can he readily recruit young executives from outside the area after they learn that the state put Osceola's school district on "academic distress" two years ago, when only 33% of 11th-graders could read at grade level, and only 8% were up to par in math...