Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand that Faculty are burdened with innumerable commitments-research, teaching, departmental committees, etc. But the full Faculty meets so infrequently, we can't believe they can't find the time to attend. Given the grave issues so often on the agenda, they should make a special effort...
Most military analysts see the espionage, which took place in 1988, as possibly the worst since the Rosenbergs were executed in the 1950s for spying for the Soviet Union. More importantly, they argue, the theft represents a grave threat to national security...
Between 1841 and 1851, the Irish population dwindled from 8 million to 6 million, these numbers driven equally by starvation and emigration. How much greater the indignity that the million who died mostly did so in anonymity, in unmarked mass graves along roadsides and near the coast. During the winter of 1847, the worst year of the Great Famine also known as "Black '47," one such mass grave, on a beach in County Mayo, was dug in the sand because the survivors were too weak to break the frozen ground...
...Galleria is so ghostly quiet you're tempted to do a grave dance and let it echo to the rafters. It has the feel of a thousand downtown shopping districts sucked dry by indistinguishable beasts like this one. Foot Locker, Structure and Florsheim Shoes sit empty. Victoria's Secret is naked. Only a handful of the 120 stores are still open, Orange Julius and Howick's Fine Gifts & Jewelry among them, but they'll soon be gone, and an 18-month renovation will turn the space into an office center with a few shops and restaurants...
...inspectors general. Schlesinger blamed the latter for abridging "due process in their investigations" and said they "do their dirty work without serious accountability." He charged inspectors general with having created a culture in which "anonymous denunciations thrive." His unsupported criticisms reflect a lack of knowledge and do a grave disservice to inspectors general. Inspectors general root out waste, fraud and abuse and investigate misconduct. They do not have any independent power to prosecute but instead work with federal prosecutors on cases that are suitable for action. And they deal with anonymous denunciations the way any professional investigative agency does: they...