Word: distress
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...will have no choice but to address the threats emerging from technology through a combination of ethical standards, technological "immune systems" and law enforcement. Although I believe the hazards are real, I am optimistic that we will ameliorate these dangers while we overcome age-old problems of human distress. The merger of humanity and its technology is the inevitable next step in the evolutionary progress of intelligence on our planet...
Since his death, the department implemented a number of reforms geared toward helping students feel that they had someone to go to when they were in distress...
...Advising for seniors has experienced the greatest distress over the last several years. The number of thesis writers has grown from 28 to 58 in the last five years...
Saville's coach, Ron Weigel, behaved as theatrically as his protege. He wept, threw a chair and even blamed politics for Saville's elimination. When she had calmed down, Saville realized that race walking--already subject to criticism as an Olympic sport--had not been well served by her distress. "I love this sport," she avowed. "If nothing else, it makes you the toughest person around...
...accuses Shell of effecting a holocaust against his people, alleging that they are guilty of summary execution, crimes against humanity, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, violations of the rights to life, liberty, security of person, and peaceful assembly, wrongful death, assault and battery, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress and conspiracy...