Word: tragically
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...credibility of this tragic saga resides largely within the yawning disparity between its protagonists' ideals and the un-rosy urban reality with which Americans are only too familiar. While watching Enrique and Rosa crawl for miles through a tunnel to reach America, the viewer cannot help but shake his head over their delight upon spotting the light at the end. The odds are stacked miserably against them; but unaware of this fact, the two march almost inexorably toward despair...
...figure who would encapsulate the Edwardian age's anguish over the way the virtues of the primitive life were being trampled by the irresistible march of industrialism and imperialism. It is this figure that Hugh Hudson, director of Chariots of Fire, has sought to restore, on a near tragic scale...
...world. Last year more than a million Americans suffered heart attacks; more than half of them died as a result. Because most of the victims are in their prime productive years, mainly men in their 40s and 50s, the economic and social toll is huge, leaving aside the tragic personal waste. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, deaths from heart attacks cost an estimated $60 billion in medical bills, lost wages and productivity, or more than last year's total Medicare budget...
...family was notified on the telephone, which is not our policy. It's not a very nice way to get tragic news," the detective said...
...ENCOURAGING that the Reagan regime has taken an interest in affirmative action, but how tragic that it has concerned itself with the wrong side of the coin. Affirmative action is not a discretionary tool to be employed at whim; rather, it represents the best available legal remedy for past and current discrimination that has severely eroded any true measure of equality in the American economy. But in both word and deed, the Reagan Administration has seriously undermined the legitimacy of affirmative action nationwide...