Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member of TIME's Board of Economists, has observed that necessary international monetary reforms come about only as a result of crises. Now that the world has had the crises, it is time for the reform. The chaotic conditions of last week, if prolonged or repeated, pose a grave threat to international stability. The present monetary system served the global economy well for many years and helped to promote an enormous postwar expansion of world trade. But financial institutions, like any other, can stay healthy only if they change with the world around them...
...April 7, Kate, a Japanese cameraman, a Cambodian photographer and three Cambodian assistants vanished while covering some fierce fighting on Highway 4. Nine days later, Cambodian troops in the area found the bullet-torn and decomposing body of a Caucasian woman in a shallow grave; their discovery seemed to confirm fears that Kate had become the tenth journalist to die in Cambodia since the war spread there last spring (TIME...
...were held by the Communists for three weeks in hideouts in the Elephant mountains southwest of Phnom-Penh. On the whole, she reported, the Communists "treated us well." No one knows just why she was freed. No one may ever know the identity of the woman in the shallow grave. Following usual Cambodian army practice, the body was cremated on the spot...
...startling turnabout that should drag Ripley from his grave and send Jean Dixon into retirement, the Harvard baseball team collapsed this weekend, losing to Columbia, 7-6, on Friday, then dropping a doubleheader to the Princeton Tigers, 9-6 and 11-2, on Saturday...
Under the proposal, Faculty members may be prosecuted for "grave misconduct"-encompassing violations of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities-or "neglect of duty." Administrators who are also faculty members may be charged with "grave misconduct...