Word: grave
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Ironically enough, most of the economic reforms which Menem is now undertaking (and receiving widespread public approval for) were first proposed by Alfonsin, only to be defeated by the Peronists in Parliament. Juan Peron must be laughing in his grave...
Rumors, possibly false, suddenly spread in May 1938 that German troops were concentrating on the Czech frontier. Bene ordered a partial mobilization, the British expressed "grave concern," and the French warned Berlin that they were ready to fight. One of Hitler's top generals thereupon announced that it had all been a mistake, that there had been no German troop movements. By appearing to stand firm for the first time, the Allies seemed to have made Hitler back down. But this apparent victory had two important results: the Allies were appalled at how near to war they had come...
...court ruled that even if Masson did not say those words, Malcolm's inventions were permissible because they did not "alter the substantive content" of what he actually said, or were a "rational interpretation" of his comments. Judge Alex Kozinski fiercely dissented: "While courts have a grave responsibility under the First Amendment to safeguard freedom of the press, the right to deliberately alter quotations is not, in my view, a concomitant of a free press...
...concepts that have governed the economy for 40 years. Inefficient mines, mills and factories will have to be closed. Unemployment will have to be tolerated. So will growing differentials in wages and living standards. Hardest of all for party members will be the loss of cradle-to-grave security...
...pressed to give them asylum. Refugees tell of five grim years of escalating pressure -- their schools closed, their language outlawed, their music silenced and their names changed for Slavic ones. Worst of all, in their view, Muslim worship was banned, a repression extending literally from the cradle to the grave: circumcision was forbidden, and Turkish burial grounds closed...