Greyfriars Bobby is a rather famous little dog: he was so distressed by the death of his owner that he would not leave the graveyard.
The first foray in implementing the new strategy was purchase of the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine, an enterprise so distressed that it seemed nearly worthless on paper.
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On suicide she adds, "when women are so distressed that they are willing to take their own lives, they need to be listened to, they need to be believed and they need appropriate medical care".
With so many agencies able to broker deals and so much distressed real estate available, Syracuse has become a buyer's market.
He set out to build a nationwide banking system so that distressed areas could be helped by ones that were prospering.
This is every parents' nightmare, seeing their children go out at night and ending up in the hospital the next day, that's what they have to face now, so they are very distressed.
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With so many assets trading at such distressed levels, many expect the wholesale side of the industry to record massive gains when sentiment properly turns around.
And as the collective eye has adjusted to some of the distressed looks that seemed so revolutionary then, leading designers of the day, including Vivienne Westwood, who with partner Malcolm McLaren put naked men on shirts that gave literal meaning to graphic Ts, have since designed Oscar gowns for the likes of Helen Mirren.
Mr. Singer's fund specializes in distressed debt and bankruptcy situations, so perhaps he has reason to oppose changes to a system he knows so well.
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But optimists are suddenly going so far as to suggest that the current recapitalization of distressed Irish holdings might even be a bellwether for other beleaguered European economies.
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So, could the presence of low tier price increases, distressed home sale price increases, smaller percentages of distressed sale levels, and high levels of investor activity be what a floor looks like?
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"Dougie is quite sensitive to noises, so even if his teachers had just played the soundtrack it might have distressed him, " Mrs Bourne said.
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But all of these distressed ladies were represented expensively in court by hired hands, so much of their damages will have been swallowed up by their learned friends and their solicitors.
The nationalisation comes after the European Commission blocked an earlier plan that would have seen the country's other large banks, Rabobank, ING and ABN Amro, contribute capital to a so-called "bad bank" to house SNS Reaal's distressed property assets.
Buyers also are hoping to see more sales this year by the so-called bad banks being formed by national governments primarily to dispose of distressed real estate.
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Unless you buy debt at distressed levels, the upside is limited and the downside decidedly less so, which is why bond portfolios cannot be diversified anything like as much as equity portfolios.
At the time, so-called secondary funds, investment partnerships set up to purchase existing private equity fund stakes, expected distressed sellers to drive down prices and flood the market.
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