Word: gravest
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Long sentences and sufficient prison capacity are by no means a perfect solution. Critics rightfully consider prisons as "colleges in crime," where serious efforts at rehabilitation have largely been abandoned. They argue that only criminals convicted of the gravest crimes and repeat offenders can be locked up until they die, if only because prison is so expensive--upwards of $15,800 annually for each prisoner, more than it costs to send a student to Yale. The American Civil Liberties Union argues that greater certainty of some kind of punishment is a better deterrent to crime than stiff sentences...
...Brazil, the world's largest and most populous (131 million) Roman Catholic country. Nonetheless, the debate over the propriety of that support continues to rage within the Brazilian hierarchy. Eugenio Cardinal de Araujo Sales, the conservative Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, charges that liberation theology "constitutes one of the gravest risks to the unity of the pastors and the faithful...
What is more, the feud is not simply a personal one. For months, Shultz and Weinberger have been giving Reagan conflicting advice on some of the gravest issues of U.S. policy. Lately they have been carrying on what amounts to a public debate...
...exaggerations, oversimplifications and outright misstatements on both sides deserve greater attention. Some of the errors might make a concerned voter shudder, since they involve the gravest issues of national policy. A partial list, beginning with the President, whose mistakes were the more numerous...
Faced with one of the gravest challenges in his 19-year rule, Marcos, ever the adroit tactician, moved quickly to cut his losses. He began by treating Agrava's minority report as if it were the only finding of the board and promptly turned the milder version over to the Ministry of Justice. Then, seizing the moment between the announcements of the two reports, Marcos appeared on television to address the country. He urged that the case be settled "without letting a day pass." Already the seven men implicated by Agrava had, he explained, been suspended from duty...