Word: gravest
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...been his ability to contain the radical elements of Hamas--until Israel foolishly decided to assassinate one of its leaders for past crimes during a stable cease-fire. The greatest evil that this nascent state can face is civil war--calamitous as that may be--that constitutes the gravest danger. The manner in which Arafat deals with his Islamic opposition, indeed all opposition, will crucially determine the future power of the executive in Palestine, and, hence, the nature of its civil society and its government. As an Arab, I am greatly ashamed by the fact that Arab regimes from...
...food, medication and heat. More jolting is the report's liberal calculus. Presenting four-year-old information and focusing on a Shanghai institution--just one of China's hundreds of orphanages--it finds that "the pattern of cruelty, abuse and malign neglect...now constitutes one of the country's gravest human-rights problems...
Gingrich and the newcomers agreed that the gravest threat to the revolution came from the committee chairs. Even with Republicans in control, Gingrich's agenda could easily have been buried by chairmen who were damn well going to exercise the power they had finally won. So he scrapped the seniority system, to install as chairmen members who had proved their fealty, and then he packed the key committees with his acolytes, to make sure the chairmen behaved. He even required all members of the Appropriations Committee to sign an oath of loyalty to the Contract with America as a condition...
...other words, if we simply abide by the Powell doctrine and hew to the Pentagon strategy of preparing for two simultaneous conventional wars, we would keep the U.S. military out of action unless the gravest kind of threat looms...
...show has successfully weathered SATURDAY NIGHT DEAD headlines in the past, but this year it is facing its gravest crisis yet. Last season SNL was bombarded with fierce criticism not only from the public and the press but also from unhappy performers and network executives like NBC West Coast president Don Ohlmeyer, who deemed the cast members too distracted and the writing "weak." His complaints were mild compared with those of many longtime viewers, whose memories of last year's endlessly puerile sketches are still vivid...