President Bush and leading Democrats in Congress are counting on the F.H.A., which is overseen by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to help distressed borrowers refinance into stable, government-backed loans.
Distressed investing putting money into high-risk debt that most others won't touch sure ain't what it used to be.
He took an activist's stance, however, by transforming personal distress into public protest.
Another patient in Hong Kong said that Novartis hired the public relations firm Ruder Finn to help patients get their stories of financial distress into the newspapers.
Some have turned distress into positive activism, like a college kid in my building who went to Washington to protest the inauguration.
This helps to set in place a lifelong pattern in which boys and men are more likely to externalise anger and distress into violence and antisocial behaviour and are less likely to seek help with personal problems of all sorts.
In interviews around Let England Shake, Harvey has spoken about her emotional reaction to world affairs over the years, and her struggle to turn her feelings of distress into good art.
In "Bad Paper," Siegel and Wilson become Halpern's guides to the wild, largely unregulated world of debt collection, in which debts are bought and sold while a motley assortment of financial whizzes and tough-talking enforcers hound people in financial distress into paying their delinquent bills.
The Humane Society of the United States and other animal-welfare groups, however, want USDA to adopt a Canadian-style classification scheme that ranks levels of pain and distress into three or more categories, based on examples of common lab procedures.
To escape its charged history, the American Psychiatric Association in 1980 began using the term "sensory conversion disorder," after Freud's theory that hysterical patients convert their mental distress into physical suffering.
