Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot, in good conscience, simply urge the student body to abstain from voting. Simply to abandon this great democratic experiment, even under the most tempting of circumstances, would be a grave mistake...
...this universe at least has intensified, though I have felt no right to claim intimacy with him. As for so many others, he has never seemed less than mysterious, and my experience of his overwhelming but oddly businesslike healing and the memory of the unstinting mercy in his grave face and eyes are indelible...
...increasingly technological society, the lack of a high school diploma can be a crippling disadvantage. To deny graduation to so great a segment of the population at such an early stage in the history of this test, when its content and grading mechanism are still unclear, would be a grave mistake, helping neither the students nor the educational system...
...Gore may have a lock on the votes of organized labor, but the Clinton administration's latest trade deal with China may make it harder to rouse trade union enthusiasm for electing the veep. Labor slammed the agreement Tuesday, with AFL-CIO president John Sweeney calling it a "grave mistake" and Teamsters leader James P. Hoffa denouncing it as a "slap in the face" to American and Chinese workers. Labor's hostility to the pact that all but ensures China's entry to the WTO may bode ill for Gore, who has assiduously courted labor's support since his free...
...virtually every living cell, helping tell our bodies where we are in the daily sweep from morning to night. Now, at 77, Benzer is searching through our genes for a sort of clock of clocks that tells us where we are in the sweep from the cradle to the grave and decides how fast we age. Recently he discovered a mutant fruit fly that lives more than 100 days, about one-third longer than the rest of the madding crowd in a fly bottle. What makes the difference is a single gene, which Benzer calls Methuselah...