Word: graved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grave Doubts. Every modern timber company clear-cuts where possible. The practice confines the harvest to one area and makes reseeding easier; thus clear-cutting can cost a lumber company about 50% less than cutting only selected trees. The industry thus was shocked when a higher court last August upheld the Monongahela decision. Then in December a federal judge in Anchorage cited the same decision and voided Ketchikan Pulp Co.'s 50-year contract to take 8.2 billion board feet of timber out of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The ruling cast grave doubts on the legality...
...news has lately been increased substantially because news shows now often provide half of a station's revenue. The resulting rivalry for ratings and hours reminds Leonard of the shoddy newspaper-circulation wars earlier in the century. Says he: "The stakes are high enough that there is grave danger of journalistic considerations going right out of the window...
...while, the committee gave serious consideration to proposing a total ban on all covert activities, reasoning that they were simply incompatible with the tenets of a democratic society. But the final report concluded that the U.S. should be able to mount undercover operations to counter grave threats to the nation. Last February, President Gerald Ford announced new Executive guidelines to control the CIA'S covert activities, but the committee remained unsatisfied, insisting that the restrictions be made even tougher and written into...
...Communists' decision to launch the initial thrust against the Central Highlands city of Ban Me Thuot. That came as a complete surprise to Saigon and led President Thieu to his hasty decision to withdraw his forces from the Central Highlands. Dung calls Thieu's decision a "grave strategic mistake." Thereafter, he says, Hanoi's main problem was moving fast enough to maintain the military initiative. For example, the Communists sent a commander from Hanoi to take charge of the battle for Danang on March 26. Much to Hanoi's astonishment, the city fell only three days...
...drawing; and in some pieces, like the articulated figure of the Standing Christ, with rawhide-hinged elbows, the imagery of pain acquires an immense expressive force. In some ways the weirdest santos of all were the penitential death figures, especially a fine 19th century death figure kneeling on a grave. The anatomy is haywire, the drawing childish; but this emptily grinning totem of wooden bones, flagellating itself above a mysterious round stone, is as strange as any surrealist sculpture by Giacometti, filled with a sense of isolation - an image as suited to its desert as any cactus flower...