Word: distressingly
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...sure, the biggest cause of the distress is the temporary effect of the worst recession since the 1930s. In addition, though, the economic order has changed, and U.S. business will never return to its prerecession status. Says John Wilson, chief economist of the Bank of America: "This recession is unique. Always in the past, autoworkers knew they would be hired back. This time, I think, they sensed from the beginning in Detroit and St. Louis and Los Angeles that they would not all be re-employed...
...Mind"; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Van Der Zee became a photographer in Harlem during World War I, shooting weddings, funerals and back-to-Africa parades as well as thousands of carefully composed portraits. Sadly, his "discovery" by the public and critics coincided with severe financial distress: evicted from his studio only weeks later, Van Der Zee lost much of his huge, priceless collection of prints and negatives and was forced to live on public assistance...
More signs of distress surfaced last week. MGF Oil of Midland, Texas, said it lost $80.3 million in 1982. The troubled exploration and drilling company, which is trying to restructure its bank debt, already has slashed its work force by two-thirds, from a high of 1,400, and is operating only seven of its 46 rigs. Says Executive Vice President Phillip Marcum: "You should be prepared for a minimum of two years of this. Three to five years would be better...
Such conservative distress is not new. A longtime target of complaint is the World Council of Churches, to which many major U.S. denominations also belong but which is separate from the N.C.C. For 13 years the W.C.C.'s Program to Combat Racism has given regular grants to African guerrillas righting to overthrow repressive white regimes. The W.C.C. says it does not "pass judgment on those victims of racism who are driven to violence as the only way left to them to redress grievances." The money is intended for welfare, not arms, but churches do not monitor...
...complained to associates, did not have the courage to ask her to quit, Burford remained steadfastly loyal to the President. "I love that guy," she said, "and I'd be proud to serve him any place." The affection was mutual. Notoriously reluctant to cut loose loyal aides in distress, Reagan continued to insist in his press conference on Friday that Burford was a martyr hounded to resign by environmental activists and a scandal-hungry press. He called her "a far bigger person than those who have been sniping at her with unfounded charges ... I wonder how they manage...