Word: graved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waste management is a small but significant step. But it must be followed up with a continuing vigorous effort to resolve the menacing threat of nuclear waste to the safety and well-being of whole populations. Otherwise the full dawning of the atomic age could be postponed indefinitely, with grave consequences for a world already facing the threat of energy shortages...
...decline a crown so generously offered, immediately began acting mayoral, going so far as to name a transition team to take over the government only two days after the run-off. And although Cuomo, uncooperative fellow that he is, refused to step into his freshly-dug grave, he still seemed more like a punched-out sparring partner than a live contender. The clear choice, it was obvious, was Koch...
Jimmy Carter understands that he will need all the help he can get to win the war against expense account dining. His experience is limited: almost everybody in his time in Plains ate lunch at home. Equally grave, his logic is dubious. By the National Restaurant Association's reckoning, deductible dining accounts for only about 5% of all purchased meals. The N.R.A. calculates that diners on expense accounts order soft drinks more than twice as often as cocktails, which means that Carter is hacking away at Coke and Dr Pepper, commodities that float the state of Georgia...
...used up its cash reserves entirely and now survives month-to-month on a combination of bank loans and new payments from the mine operators. If the whole union walked out, the fund would not be able to meet its obligations, and the other funds would also be in grave jeopardy...
...mine owners could overplay their hand. Paradoxically, the U.M.W.'s trump card is that a prolonged strike could destroy the national union, leaving owners to deal entirely with the fractious, wildcatting locals. It is a thought that must have John L. Lewis spinning rapidly in his grave...