Here, a distressed zone occurs in the roof of the opening and the stress over the excavated area is shifted into the neighboring solid coal pillars resulting in an increase in overall stress over the solid coal pillars.
Mr Trichet stretched his mandate by buying the bonds of distressed euro-zone states.
The International Monetary Fund estimates that Britain will have a deficit this year of 8.1 percent of G.D.P., surpassing Spain and even Greece and trailing only Ireland among the distressed euro zone economies.
PARIS — If the troika that handles bailouts of distressed euro zone countries were a soccer team, it would probably be looking for a new manager after achieving a track record of one win, one loss and one draw.
Policy makers have been discussing ways to strengthen the European Financial Stability Facility, or E.F.S.F., which is the centerpiece of a 750 billion-euro ($1 trillion) rescue package for distressed euro zone countries.
Little by little, Mario Draghi, the Italian president of the European Central Bank, has taken an institution whose overriding mission was to keep inflation in check — the obsession that built the Deutsche Mark — and turned it into a lender of last resort prepared to throw everything into buying the distressed euro-zone sovereign debt of countries like Spain and Italy and so preserve the euro.
It is widely believed that Mr Stark, in line with other German officials, did not support the central bank's controversial policy of buying up bonds from distressed euro-zone economies.Shining a little lightThe Federal Reserve said it would soon start publishing detailed forecasts on interest rates.
Germany has so far resisted a greater role for the central bank, which has already bought substantial amounts of bonds of distressed euro zone countries like Italy and Greece, but most other countries increasingly see the central bank as the only short-term solution to the crisis.
* An economic development program that included six "opportunity zones" - distressed areas for which state and local incentives would be clustered to help business expand.
Port Norris's ambitions now center on its future as a site for development as part of a federal empowerment zone for distressed areas.
Frank Mauro, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a union-backed research group, said the lawmakers' work was "a mixed bag -- some good and some bad". He said it was contradictory to try to refocus the zones in economically distressed areas, while allowing for the creation of one in every county.
