Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major issue that has confronted the committee has been just how to achieve the increase in the number of women in the College. Alumni and some administrators have expressed grave concern about the possible effects of a decrease in the number of men. On the other hand, students and some faculty say that expansion is not a satisfactory alternative because the College is already crowded enough...
...Grave Questions. Unquestionably, rationing would generate wide spread inequities. Lower-income motorists would be penalized because they tend to drive inefficient old cars that get poor gasoline mileage. Residents of rural and suburban areas would suffer more than city dwellers, because they are not served by adequate mass transit systems. A network of local rationing boards would probably be created to deal with hardship claims. But there would be much bureaucratic adjudication of minute details of Americans' private and business lives. By FEA'S estimate, rationing would require the creation of a massive bureaucracy of as many...
...would add at least two percentage points to the cost of living index. Furthermore, U.S. producers of petro chemicals, synthetic textiles and other products that derive from oil would be at a great disadvantage in world markets because their foreign competitors would be using cheaper oil. Grave questions exist over whether enough energy would be saved to justify these high costs...
...Henry Kissinger has said that the U.S. might intervene in the oil-producing countries in this area. What would Egypt's position be in that case? A. This is a very grave error that Henry has committed. Henry is my friend, but he shouldn't have said that. I don't like the language of confrontation, which is the language of the 19th century, the diplomacy...
...author of one witty novel (The Rock Pool) and a rather indescribable, rather marvelous volume of quotations, moody autobiography and black-Irish philosophy he called The Unquiet Grave. But by temperament and profession he was above all that obsolescent specimen, The Bookman. The bulk of his writing, like this last collection, was in the form of reviews. Posed against a floor-to-ceiling bookcase with his snub-nose schoolboy's impertinent face, he seemed as much in his natural habitat as a leprechaun in front...