Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they can be wiped out if they choose the wrong issues, but it has only recently dawned on them that they also can be ruined if they choose the wrong brokerage house. That threat has been raised by several brokerage failures. So far, the failures have not caused any grave losses to customers, but there is a danger that a series of future ones could do so-and that even clients of solvent brokers would be panicked into selling out everything, bringing on a stock-market collapse...
Gradually, the full horror dawned on Peruvians. "Our losses," commented one newspaper, "will be greater than if we had lost a war." Indeed, officials speculated that by the time the last body is laid in a shallow grave and the last missing Indian villager is counted, the death toll might reach 50,000. If so, it will have been the deadliest earthquake in the recorded history of Latin America...
...Commissioner Bowie Kuhn was hopping mad. "This is a horrible piece of writing!" he fumed at Houston Astro Pitcher Jim Bouton, author of a new book called Ball Four. According to sources close to the commissioner's office, Kuhn went on: "You've done the game a grave disservice. Saying players kissed on the Seattle team bus-incredible! Or that some of our greatest stars were drunk on the field. What can you be thinking...
...does not, the Government could work against a further unemployment rise by drifting into a bigger budget deficit or expanding the money supply faster. But the Federal Reserve Board, which was forced to pump out money in the past two months to avoid a grave shortage in the banking system, lately has been gently reducing the rate of increase. In order to give the board more room to expand money without bringing about further inflation, many of Nixon's advisers-and Congress-have been prodding him to adopt some form of "jawboning" or wage-price guidelines. At week...
After a visit to the Paris grave of famed Chanteuse Edith Piaf, his father's mistress, petit Marcel finally arrived at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week for his first fight in the U.S. As always, he carried with him cherished mementos of his father: the taped water bottle he always used in the ring, the watch he was wearing when he died, the bloodstained trunks he wore when he dethroned Zale. Whenever anyone mentioned his quest for the championship, petit Marcel spoke the few words of English he had mastered: "It is my destin...