Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least one year of his five-year larceny sentence back in Utah. He applied for a one-year deferment, claiming this time that he needed to care for his mother, whom he said was dying of leukemia in Switzerland. Evidently, Hogue's fictitious mother had risen from her Bolivian grave only to travel to Europe and contract cancer...
Evidently, Hogue's fictitious mother had risen from her Bolivian grave only to travel to Europe and contract cancer...
...American life is worth more than a Bosnian life, at least to our government. It may sound callous, but would any patriotic American really want the U.S. Government to care more about, say, Zimbabweans than U.S. Nationals? The only thing that can justify putting our servicemen in such grave danger is the national interest, and that clearly is not involved here...
...sensitive Japanese officials were upset. The World Labor Report, published by the Geneva-based International Labor Office, cites karoshi as one of the consequences of stress at work. The report also contains a survey that says more than 40% of Japanese fear they may work themselves into an early grave. The Japanese Ministry of Labor questions the report's data and is filing a formal protest with the International Labor Office. Here's hoping ministry officials won't work too hard getting the report corrected...
...this month when a major sex-research study suggested that only 1% to 2% of men are homosexual, vs. the traditional assumption of 10%. The findings may be re-evaluated, but their immediate impact has been to make gays seem a far smaller group that could be shortchanged without grave political peril...