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China’s civil war sent distressing echoes to Hong Kong.
The book's cynicism is even more distressing, symptomatic as it is of a larger cynicism that seems to have gripped our public culture.
It is distressing that in this time of AIDS it could still be said that Kinsey's passionate interest in human sexuality could only be the product of perversion.
[ 7 ] Aggressive treatment of distressing symptomatology contributes to overall quality of life and restores to the patient some of the freedom and autonomy usurped by the disease process.
Chatterbox just caught up with a Boston Globe article containing the distressing news that Out-of-Town News, the famous Harvard Square newsstand, is losing business to the Internet.