Word: gravest
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Thus began by far the gravest crisis in the troubled, 32-year history of commercial atomic power. A catastrophe had occurred over the weekend at the Chernobyl plant, 80 miles north of Kiev, where a reactor meltdown and explosion caused untold death and suffering and raised the prospect of long- term health and environmental damage on a far greater scale than anything yet unleashed by peaceful nuclear...
Such sentiments were noble in intention, if condescending in conception. But Wilson's gravest mistake was in his determination of how to "properly direct" the Mexicans. His policy of supporting an armed resistance to a nearby regime he disliked was not only politically illegitimate and morally questionable, it was also counter-productive. As one historian wrote, "Wilson's assumptions about how to effect change in Latin nations [were] greatly flawed; he especially underestimated the vigor and resistance to external guidance of revolutionary nationalism...
...talk against his will. "We need to know what is broken and what must be fixed," Schatzow said. Although the bargain had been approved by Attorney General Edwin Meese and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Navy Secretary John Lehman attacked the deal. John and Michael Walker had committed "the gravest of all possible crimes," charged Lehman. Not giving them the maximum possible sentence, he added, sends "the wrong message to the nation and to the fleet." Weinberger then scolded Lehman for making "injudicious and incorrect statements" about the arrangement...
...gravest fault of all with this film is its insistence on answering all questions ambiguously. But real contradictions and questions appear in the movie that should upset Livingston's new found spiritual agnosticism. Which of the conception stories do we believe, and why does another nun appear to have acted as liason in one of them? What was the Mother Superior's real role in the crime? After all, she was present exerting her maximum influence on Agnes during hypnosis, and one can lie under hypnosis. And who is the baby's father...
...public seems to agree. In a new poll for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc.,* respondents were asked what they thought was the gravest problem the nation faced. Some 23% volunteered the budget deficit as an answer, more than those identifying any other subject. What should be done to reduce the deficit? Cut spending, said 60%. What spending? Respondents put military outlays at the top of the hit list; 64% wanted them slashed...