Word: gravest
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AmEx paid for the whole thing. If this is the gravest privacy danger we face, then you can all know Mom's name is Burd. In fact, since AmEx wouldn't tell me what happened with its investigation, I'm still rooting for the other me to outrun the AmEx cops. He's tough, he's a world traveler, he's frugal, and I'm pretty sure he can help me take care of Adam Cohen if Adam ever tries to break into my home computer...
...President Bush read a brief statement after the execution, saying, "This morning the United States of America carried out the severest sentence for the gravest of crimes. The victims of the Oklahoma City bombing have been given not vengeance, but justice. And one young man met the fate he chose for himself six years ago. For the survivors of the crime and for the families of the dead, the pain goes on. Final punishment of the guilty cannot alone bring peace to the innocent. It cannot recover the loss or balance the scales, and it is not meant...
...reconnaissance of ships in Pearl Harbor, with great seriousness. For the record, Dan Ackroyd doesn't play Bratton in the movie but a Bratton-like figure named Thurman. This is presumably because, were he playing Bratton, he would never have told his superiors that he felt Pearl was in gravest peril. Bratton did think that "the Japanese were showing unusual interest in the port," but he also thought they would not, finally, "go out of [their] way deliberately to attack an American installation...
...miners working 12-hour shifts in the hills see little of the gold they bring out of the earth. Although working underground in makeshift mud tunnels is highly dangerous?occasionally fatal?it is the workers in the processing units who are in the gravest immediate peril. Unlike Femmy, whose baby was born with tragic deformities, many of the workers say that after educational campaigns by NGOs and the local government, they now know mercury can harm them. But the risk is more than offset by the high wages?nearly $50 a month, or double what they could make from...
...Presidency: Oklahoma City is Clinton's gravest test...