Word: grave
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Brewster's successor will inherit a salary of about $85,000, a stately mansion -and Yale's grave financial problems. Over a decade, the university's cumulative deficit has climbed to $16.6 million. Last year, Yale spent $209 million and ran $6.6 million in the red, the largest annual deficit in its history...
Reagan delivers up to a dozen speeches a month, writes columns twice weekly for 125 newspapers, and tapes weekly five-minute messages for 275 radio stations. His favorite targets: Big Government, Carter's Panama Canal treaty and Edward Kennedy's cradle-to-grave national health-insurance program, which Reagan describes as "the sperm-to-worm plan." At the same time, he preaches party unity to keep from scaring off Republican moderates. Says he: "Let's put an end to giving each other political saliva tests to establish the degree of our Republican purity." Says a close associate...
...failing health, desperately wants the book to be finished, and it seems he has some grave personal stake in the matter. A series of flashbacks detail the interactions of a Communist cell in Berlin circa 1928. The major "failing" involved is a missed opportunity to kill Hitler, or so the old man perceives it. The main action in the play, excitingly enough, rotates about the writing of the book, complemented by flashbacks. Erdelyi hires a young college student, well played by Paul Jackel, to assist him, and the two suffer through an alternately close and cold relationship. But just...
Unlike the "butterfly" intellectual, the oppressed African peasant sees Africa as his only world-his birth place and his grave yard. He is therefor the only force that will effect a genuine African independence...
...Some bad people have wormed their way into the revolutionary committees of provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, and some committee members have committed grave errors but have refused to repent...