Word: distressingly
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...preceding the trial, the defendant, El Sayyid A. Nosair, seemed headed for conviction on a second degree murder charge. The case was so stacked against him that his lawyer, noted defender of the legally oppressed William Kunstler, advised his client to plead insanity or at least claim extreme emotional distress in order to receive a lesser sentence. But Kunstler prevailed in getting his client off the hook regarding the serious charges...
...think the bishops have caved in to Vatican pressure." After agreeing to prepare the document in 1983, the bishops made an elaborate effort to hear out alienated women. Some 75,000 women offered written and oral testimony, and the first draft in 1988 was filled with accounts of their distress. That version urged rapid study of the idea of allowing women to be deacons, who perform many ministerial functions, and more leisurely consideration of priesthood...
...betting that the rebels within his party will return to the fold rather than risk a no-confidence vote that could lead to a new election and a possible victory for Labour. But the nation's distress over the economy and the Prime Minister's inability to do much about it make Major's bet a dangerous long-term...
Councillors said the yellowish-brown water, which has effected Harvard dorms, "causes people great distress" and paraded out dirty filters coated in black grime from the city's reservoirs...
...sudden cessation of coffee consumption. In the experiment, people deprived of caffeine complained that they felt worse than when they had the flu, and one woman noted the sickness was as bad as what she experienced while undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for cancer. Caffeine withdrawal may explain the puzzling distress some people suffer following surgery (pre-op procedure often prohibits food or liquids), or on weekends (no office coffeepot), or during visits with people who prefer decaffeinated beverages. The findings, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine by a Johns Hopkins University team, may apply equally to moderate drinkers...