Word: gravest
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...this adds up to perhaps the gravest challenge to global capitalism since the Great Depression. And suddenly everyone from Malaysia's dictatorial Mahathir Mohamad to President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are calling for reform of the international monetary system that has held sway for a half-century. Their ideas range from Mahathir's ban on currency trading in depression-mired Malaysia to the Clinton Administration's talk of a new "global financial architecture" that would preserve a relatively free flow of capital while reducing the volatility of world financial markets. Says Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin: "Clearly...
...only remaining players, the most important ones: the Secret Service agents; Clinton's loyal second, Bruce Lindsey; Lewinsky; and the President himself. For four years, Starr had tested the power of the presidency, and his record was mixed. Now he was convinced that it was time for the gravest, and most constitutionally risky, test of all: serving a subpoena on a sitting President...
...surprising that India and Pakistan are not being severely punished for exploding their nuclear devices [WORLD, June 8]. The gravest threat of nuclear war is shaping up in South Asia without the international community's working together to try to prevent it. India's government is even winning applause at home from those who confuse military might with self-esteem. MOHAMMED ABDULLAH Lawrenceville...
...real. And it has a name: Saddam Hussein. When the Iraqi nemesis bared his fangs at Clinton and the U.N. last week--expelling American weapons inspectors from Iraq, threatening to shoot down U-2 surveillance planes and daring the world to do something about it--he precipitated the gravest international crisis of Clinton's presidency. American and U.N. officials believe Saddam blocked the Special Commission inspection teams because they were closing in on his secret stores of biological weapons, some held by the elite Republican Guard. For example, Iraq reportedly has some 900 lbs. of the anthrax bacterium, a single...
...gruesome) and for what we don't know--the number of procedures and the medical circumstances. But it is also disturbing because it forces us to confront when and why these procedures happen. Most of us assume that later-term abortions are rare, indeed prohibited, except in the gravest circumstances. We're wrong...