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The quality of the sound...the pops and crackles, the staged storm sound effects, the clothes, the lighting, the bumbling sheriff, the damsel in distress - all come together to present a little gem out of time.
We have a damsel in distress.
The very lovely Lilli Palmer as Judy Lansdowne here plays the lady in distress.
Kinski does well as an extremely fair maiden in distress (and performs a truly startling full-frontal nude scene at the movie's conclusion).
Many believe that balanced-budget stimulus – tax increases at a time of economic distress – is politically impossible.
It is much harder to find circuit breakers for this dynamic than for, say, that caused by balance-sheet distress in the financial sector.
Which side wins in any situation depends on the extent of debtor distress and the strength of the opposing creditor-debtor coalitions.
Their mother, Kim Jong-suk, is said to have died from hemorrhaging while giving premature birth caused by her distress over Kim Il-sung’s love affair with Kim Song-ae.
When reminders prompted recollection many years later, they experienced intense distress, finally understanding their abuse from the perspective of an adult.
Issuing GDP-linked bonds is akin to buying insurance against economic distress.
Here in Australasia, we imported this perspective from overseas, actively suppressing more holistic Maori and Aboriginal understandings about human distress.
To be sure, this explosion of political extremism cannot be explained by economic distress alone.
Good economics, by contrast, recognizes a government’s duty to protect its constituents against distress, insecurity, and calamity.
The degree of economic distress certainly matters.
According to our most recent Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa, six of the region’s 35 low-income countries (LICs) are in “debt distress,” meaning they are unable to service external commitments.
A further nine LICs are classified as being at “high risk of debt distress.”
Will Europe be able to roll back its welfare states’ biggest excesses without economic distress and social unrest toppling governments and, in the peripheral countries, undermining already-tenuous agreements with creditors?
During the early 1930s, a period of severe economic distress, many Germans were willing to overlook the Nazis’ anti-Semitism, because they were attracted to other aspects of the party’s message.
Because runs on banks can trigger widespread distress, governments explicitly guarantee insured deposits and implicitly guarantee all the other debts of mega-banks.
The distress following the failure of Lehman Brothers would have been an obvious occasion.
It may also discourage people from helping the vulnerable: there are reports in the Mediterranean of private vessels avoiding migrant boats in distress for fear of being reprimanded by European border patrols.
For example, the European Union’s border police do not have clear search-and-rescue guidelines for migrant ships in distress.
Emerging markets were initially tied to this distress only when foreign investors began pulling out their money.
Meanwhile, the highly indebted emerging economies would face ballooning dollar liabilities, which could cause financial distress and even crises.
Moreover, Brazil would have to delink revenues and expenditures – a feature of the country’s budget that renders it difficult to manage properly in times of distress.
But demographic and other structural changes may have altered labor-market conditions: so far, despite below-8% growth, there seem to be few signs of distress.
Both are victims: the buyer is a victim of morbidity and declining social solidarity, while the seller is a victim of poverty and other forms of financial distress.
Matters may become even worse in the future, because so-called “vulture” funds have learned how to take full advantage of countries in distress.
In fact, however, there is plenty of evidence for the rival narrative that rapid and deep labor-saving technological change is what is putting pressure on wages, and that imports of cheap labor-intensive goods that US workers consume are actually offsetting that distress.
The compelling aura of reality about these experiences often produces distress and disrupts thought and behavior.
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