Word: grave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruling Politburo stripped former party chief Milos Jakes and Miroslav Stepan, the former Prague party boss, of party membership yesterday, accusing them of "grave political mistakes in resolving social tensions...
...genetic engineering equivalent to mass murder? Not even Rifkin goes that far, but he does argue that the technology represents a grave danger, both environmentally and philosophically. He fears that society, inspired by science, will take a diminished view of human life as no more than a few strands of DNA. "This is a new technology that goes to the heart of our values," he says. "The end result could very well be a brave new world, very damaging to our human spirit." Says Andrew Kimbrell, an attorney for Rifkin's foundation: "Everything that's living has a meaning...
...results were predictable: members of Congress cited drugs. The corporate mogul cited the challenge of lowering production costs. The conservative columnist found "granting abberance the status of victimized minority," one of the most grave threats to national welfare...
...grave intellectual crisis confronts many American-Jewish supporters of Israel. For more than 40 years, Israel has been able to rely on the support of a majority of Americans. The reason is simple: Americans believe in propping up threatened democracies, and Israel is a threatened democracy...
...politics, people who rationalize human rights violations are called apologists. Professor of Law and noted civil libertarian Alan M. Dershowitz, who attacks public nativity scenes as grave threats to the U.S. constitution, has no trouble rationalizing egregious curtailments of civil liberties in Israel...