11.   Stewart countersued alleging that he was wrongfully discharged, that there was a conspiracy to get him to leave and that he suffered severe emotional distress.

12.   The Imutran monkeys did not die of organ rejection, but were put down after they developed severe gastrointestinal distress.

13.   Though Continental Airlines and Northwest are in better cash-flow shape, the major airlines in general are in severe financial distress.

14.   What is particularly frustrating, said Redlener, is that the severe distress encountered by homeless children with asthma is almost entirely unnecessary.

15.   By Sunday she was in severe respiratory distress and went to the emergency room of Lenox Hill Hospital.