Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...require security clearances of some of its employees; it may even have the right, as some argue, to run checks on a few of its former employees for the rest of their lives, a sort of "distrust without prejudice" applying to individuals who had access to information of grave national concern. But rare is the man who is burdened with secrets of such value and duration that the nation can reasonably expect him to carry them to the grave...
...President himself told a Cabinet meeting late in the week that inflation "is the major problem this country faces," and on Friday, during a commencement address at Florida Technological University, he dropped a heavy hint that a new policy was being readied. After talking again about how grave a problem inflation is, he said: "We have the means to deal with...
Last week Archibald Cox, the special Watergate prosecutor, outlined a muted version of just that nightmare as he asked Senator Sam Ervin's select Watergate committee to postpone its sessions for perhaps three months. "The continuation of hearings," said Cox, "would create grave danger that the full facts ... will never come to light, and that many of those who are guilty of serious wrongdoing will never be brought to justice." Backed unanimously by his committee, Sam Ervin rejected "the suggestion that the Senate investigation will impede the search for truth." As he had previously observed: "It is much more...
...program, but with reservations about the use of goals and timetables for faculty positions. Undoubtedly reflecting complaints he had received, Bok wrote, "It is extraordinarily difficult to develop a system of targets and goals that does not create an impression of imposing de facto quotas. This impression understandably creates grave misunderstandings among faculty and administrators concerned with maintaining high standards, junior faculty who are worried about their opportunities for promotion, and representatives of women and minority groups who feel betrayed if targets are not fully achieved...
...sees little chance that she will marry again. "It depends.Ann sanctifies her father, and I'm not sure anyone should ask to marry us. We still keep a home for Bill. " She can understand wives who have given up hope, but she is not planning to install any grave markers in her husband's memory, and she is nervously noncommittal about the future. "I just put one foot in front of the other. It's not that I am being optimistic, I'm just grasping for straws...