Word: distressingly
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...come to grips with the Palestinian problem by October. If by that time the U.S. failed to respond to the Arab appeal and continued to yield to Israeli obstinacy, the Saudis could simply cut back on their oil production, once again causing the U.S., and its President, acute distress...
...mortgages to attract middle-income residents to downtown and turning the blighted inner harbor area into a showplace of refurbished row houses and new businesses. He caught the eye of Carter, who appointed him Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. As the Administration's point man on urban distress, one of the toughest jobs in town, Embry created the Urban Development Action Grant program that is helping to save 327 distressed urban areas by encouraging private investment. To qualify for UDAG, a mayor must prove that his proposal has local business support and will create jobs. In the past...
...unable to look ahead and see how his actions will affect the country. This is an uncertain Jimmy Carter trying to show how tough he is. It is true that many influential voices pleaded with Carter to be more decisive. Given his dismal political prospects and his genuine personal distress over the national attitude, an environment for extreme action was created, to which Carter responded...
...many glib one-liners sail across the stage, but mainly the drama cuts through the seas of postmatrimonial distress, casting a spray of laughter over the salty follies...
...cancer patients sign a paper upon admission to hospitals giving the surgeon blanket authority to undertake whatever treatment is deemed necessary, even if the initial intention is to do only a biopsy-taking a tissue sample from the breast to see if any cells are cancerous. To their great distress, many women have found upon awakening that the surgeon has taken a breast as well as the sample. Kushner persuaded the largely male panel to endorse a two-step approach: a biopsy first, followed by an interval-sometimes as long as a month-before the next treatment, thus giving...