Word: distressingly
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...nights ago, McMillan says, a friend of hers, who lives quite close to Sage's and has trouble walking, called her "in distress...
...more than 40 years, earth has been sending out distress signals. At first they were subtle, like the thin shells of bald-eagle eggs that cracked because they were laced with DDT. Then the signs were unmistakable, like the pall of smoke over the Amazon rain forest, where farmers and ranchers set fires to clear land. Finally, as the new millennium drew near, it was obvious that Earth's pain had become humanity's pain. The collapse of the North Atlantic cod fishery put 30,000 Canadians out of work and ruined the economies of 700 communities. Two years...
...have we responded to four decades of ever louder distress signals? We've staged a procession of Earth Days, formed Green parties, passed environmental laws, forged a few international treaties and organized global gabfests and photo ops like the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. All the while, the decline of Earth's ecosystems has continued unabated...
...immoral for the Harrington-Menino corporate gorilla to bring pain, to cause mental distress, and to inflict permanent damage to millions of Red Sox fans by destroying a sacred place of perpetual goodness and occasional...
Last week CODY GIFFORD filed his first lawsuit. And, no, it wasn't against his mother. The 10-year-old towheaded heir of KATHIE LEE and Frank Gifford is charging the National Examiner tabloid with injury to reputation and emotional distress for an article that reported he was a menace on the set of a TV movie. The Giffords claim the story is a fabrication. When asked if it was odd for a 10-year-old to file a lawsuit, Gifford's attorney Barry Langberg said, "It is a little unusual, but then again, it's unusual for a tabloid...