Word: grievous
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...letting a low-cost start-up get started up is a bad strategy. Just look at what Southwest Airlines has done. But the tactic--matching low prices and adding more seats, even if it means absorbing losses--has virtually shut out new competition and kept fares high. "The most grievous government failure has been [not to] prosecute what appear to have been flagrant cases of predatory competition by major airlines against new competitors," says Alfred Kahn, the former Civil Aeronautics Board chairman who got deregulation off the ground...
...destruction, namely an explosive bomb placed in a truck against persons within the United States and against property that was owned and used by the United States and by a department and agency of the United States, namely, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, resulting in death, grievous bodily injury and destruction of the building. The grand jury charges that the object of their conspiracy was to kill and injure innocent persons and to damage property of the United States. The grand jury charges that McVeigh and Nichols planned the act of violence and McVeigh attempted to recruit...
...members are capable of committing grievous errors and it's important to apologize and show the ability of the Spirit to heal," she added...
...marriages or protecting women from Donald Trumps trading in old models for newer ones. How many cooing couples who select covenant marriage realize that should their union turn into an icy hell, they have signed on to a financially draining, emotionally exhausting divorce process in which they must find grievous fault or separate for at least two years? A woman of a certain age might have to watch her childbearing years tick away as she plays out the Louisiana divorce clock...
...life and death, the armed forces cannot be compared with any other human endeavor. Civilians must accept the idea that those in command must be held to a high and strict standard. Since an officer's word must go unquestioned, lying under oath, as Flinn did, is a most grievous violation of trust. JOHN V. KAVANAGH Chevy Chase...