Word: gravely
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...actions in Chechnya [Russia, Jan. 16]. But it would be harmful for us to cynically view his motivation as solely political. He knows that instability in Russia alienates investors outside the country and that support and aid from the West and the International Monetary Fund are all at grave risk. Accordingly, it is highly doubtful Yeltsin would think he could boost his popularity by using force to suppress secession in Chechnya. Separatism in Russia is infectious! If Yeltsin resigns, does anyone seriously think his immediate successor would consent to free elections in Chechnya...
Anxiety was fueled by political tussling in Washington, where the White House was striving mightily, and unsuccessfully, to persuade a majority in the U.S. Congress to endorse proposed loan guarantees for Mexico. ``Failure to act could have grave consequences for the Mexicans, for Latin America, for the entire developing world,'' warned President Clinton, who got support from both the Democratic and Republican leadership as well as from Wall Street and the always cautious Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Greenspan urged Congress ``to halt the erosion in Mexico's financial capabilities before it has dramatic impacts far beyond those already evidenced...
...result of actions in Chechnya [Jan. 16]. But it would be harmful for us to cynically view his motivation as solely political. He knows that instability in Russia alienates investors outside the country, and that support and aid from the West and the International Monetary Fund are all at grave risk. Accordingly, it is highly doubtful Yeltsin would think he could boost his political popularity by using force to suppress secession in Chechnya. To the point: separatism in Russia is infectious! Can anyone seriously entertain the scenario that if Yeltsin resigns, his immediate successor might consent to internationally supervised free...
...probably knows so much about his lifeand a lot which might allay a lot of concernswhich people have, but...confidentiality goes tothe grave," she added...
...brisk and unromantic. It is where many readers first encountered a young woman seduced by an attractive stranger without suffering any ill effect. At a time when the heavy moral lifting was thought best left to men, Arendt bench-pressed the weight of the world in books with such grave titles as The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition and The Life of the Mind. Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) gave the world a deeply disturbing concept, "the banality of evil." "Who does she think she is, Aristotle?" cracked an editor at Partisan Review...