Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report was coldly scientific, its source unassailably objective, its grave import unmistakably clear: at least as late as last October, an effort to conceal evidence in the Watergate scandal was still in operation in the innermost reaches of Richard Nixon's White House...
...Harsh Reality." Capitalizing on fears that South Korea's hard-won prosperity (annual economic growth rate: 12%) might be jeopardized by the energy crisis and worldwide recession, Park invoked Article 53 of his constitution, which allows him to take emergency measures "in time of natural calamity or grave financial or economic crisis." Trying to cloak his repression in the garb of national necessity, he declared: "In view of the rapidly changing international situation, particularly the turbulent waves caused by the fluctuations of the international economy ... I cannot but conclude that our fatherland faces an extremely harsh reality...
...Price Break. For the Third World as a whole, however, there is a grave threat that goes beyond the direct effects of the crisis. Though some countries hope to increase exports of specific products, total exports of the poor nations could fall painfully, if fuel shortages slow economic growth among their customers in the industrialized world. Some economists project a drop that will force the underdeveloped countries to borrow $15 billion from the rich nations this year. That would add to a debt burden that already is growing oppressive. One economist for an American bank in London predicts that five...
...reforms. Walpole is a maximum security prison, containing the most reactionary guards in Massachusetts and a large majority of prisoners serving long sentences who are not eligible for the reforms. While reforms were being introduced at other prisons, Walpole was maintained as the security unit. This was the grave weakness of Boone's administration Walpole became the battleground of the system...
...current blotter of cop movies. It deals more directly than any, including Serpico (TIME, Dec. 31), with the criminal pathology of some police men. Roy Scheider, the leader of the Seven-Ups (and Gene Hackman's part ner in The French Connection), has just the right grave, anonymous face for the part, the right quality of eruptive violence. There are no heroes here. The movie has been made with the dogged intensity that cops can bring to their work, which explains why you have a feeling of having been worked over once the movie is done...