Word: gravest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...misguided policy, not guided visitors, constitutes the gravest threat. Owing in part to the oil crisis of the late 1970s, Washington has encouraged strip mining, oil exploration and commercial development on the edges of many parks. Timber cutting next to Olympic National Park in Washington State has reduced the area's forest from 689,871 acres in 1959 to 106,000 acres today. "Trees in the forest are cut down to the edge of the park," says Wilderness Society President George Frampton. The Reagan Administration has authorized very little money for purchases of park land. In 1978 the budget...
...until 9 p.m. in the rice fields, receiving little or no wages and barely enough food for subsistence. His education was put on hold, and he was forced to concentrate on survival--his classmates in the city, members of the Red Guard, had labeled him a "reactionary," the gravest crime in Mao's China...
...October. But, defying expectations, the economy is still running and even blowing off enough steam to inspire fears that it may actually be overheating. Forget about a recession, many economists counsel, and start worrying about inflation. Once a faint and far-off danger, rising prices may now pose the gravest threat to economic stability...
...sanctions imposed in February have produced the gravest economic crisis in the history of Panama, which uses the U.S. dollar as its currency. Banks closed more than a month ago, and the government has been unable to pay its employees...
...gravest sins of the imperial brats are committed against China's tradition of filial piety. When little Minmin's parents asked their only son to empty the family chamber pot, he poured out only a third of the contents. "I've done my part," Minmin said. "You're responsible for the rest." Some single children have even threatened to commit suicide if parents do not meet their demands. However, most do not have to resort to such extremes. Pampering is built into what is called the "four-two-one syndrome" -- four grandparents and two parents, all doting on an only...