Word: gravest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still I hear so many ignorant and callous remarks and actions. With regard to attitudes and acceptance, the Harvard community can be a better place than many for the highly functional mentally ill. (It would be terribly difficult for anyone to last around Harvard if burdened with the gravest forms of mental illness.) In my experience most people here are relatively enlightened and compassionate compared to society at large...
...first of at least two trials in which 22 Islamic fundamentalists -- including Mahmud's younger brother Mohammed -- will be tried for taking part in a massive plot to undermine the U.S. government. The catalog of charges, according to New York University law scholar Stephen Gillers, amounts to "the gravest allegations to come out of any American court in this century." Among the accusations: bombing the Trade Center, murdering the militant Zionist Rabbi Meir Kahane, plotting to kill Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato, and scheming to blow up two major highway tunnels and other New York...
North Korea is currently the gravest concern. Pyongyang signed the nonproliferation treaty in 1985 but grudgingly agreed only last year to allow inspectors to examine what it insisted was its purely civilian nuclear-power industry. When the monitors showed up, they confirmed intelligence reports that the installation at Yongbyon, north of the capital, had been processing plutonium at least since...
...higher levels, the gravest concern is the Administration's proposed defense budget cuts, which total $124 billion over five years, more than double what Clinton projected during the presidential campaign. "We all knew the budget had to come down," says retired Army Lieut. General Calvin Waller, an early Clinton supporter. "But I'd prefer the scalpel to the meat cleaver." Majors and lieutenant colonels who have served up to 15 years fear the cutbacks will dash their chances to earn a star. Up and down the ranks, all are peeved by Clinton's proposed government pay freeze. Last week...
...destruction equally enraged Muslims -- roughly 12% of India's population of 870 million -- and ignited the gravest crisis in India since the religious massacres that followed independence in 1947. Muslim and Hindu mobs armed with knives, hatchets and fire bombs attacked each other's houses of worship, homes and people in Bombay, Calcutta and other cities. A semiofficial death count topped 1,000, though the true toll was believed to be much higher. Muslim mobs burned Hindu temples and homes in the neighboring, predominantly Islamic countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh; more than 30 people were killed in Pakistan. Even...