Word: grievous
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...parliament passed a new Law on Freedom of Conscience by a vote of 341 to 2. The statute bestowed great opportunities on believers, estimated to number as many as 131 million, who have maintained their faith despite the oppression of Lenin and his successors. But with freedom come some grievous problems, principally shortages of money, trained clergy and just about everything else needed for religious restoration. At the same time, ugly sectarian conflicts, also long repressed, are boiling up within and among religious factions...
...must be buried in the Irish town of Limerick. His theory tallied with police discoveries that the suspect had hired a car and used credit cards in Ireland. But Keene could not interpret the letters HG, which he thought might stand for "her grave" or be reverse code for "grievous harm." More important, police have yet to find the body; they refuse to say whether they even searched for it in Limerick...
Republicans are not reaching for the panic button because they believe Bush will escape grievous harm unless fears about the economy become reality. Another reason for their calm is that no Democrats are yet rising as serious challengers for 1992. Nate Landow, Democratic Party chairman in Maryland, concedes, "We're certainly more optimistic now, and there are new opportunities. But I'm not sure we know how to exploit them...
...growing impatience with Israel on Capitol Hill is reflected in a gradual but perceptible ebbing in the power of the so-called Jewish lobby. "Today the great and grievous fright about AIPAC is gone," says a high-ranking staff member of the House subcommittee on Middle Eastern affairs. "There is a real sense of sorrow up here at what's become of Israel, that it's been reduced to bashing Palestinians and producing leaders like Shamir and Sharon." Such sentiments -- shocking at first hearing when one considers that their source is a politician who has worked closely with Jewish leaders...
Such adolescent angst was, of course, ludicrous. Every life has its disappointments; rejection by the college of your choice is probably more serious than not finding a date for the prom and less grievous than your mother throwing out a collection of 1950s baseball cards. Even then I was aware that my safety school was far better than most. So I stoically trudged off to the University of Michigan, a college that seemed majestically impervious to the damaged goods it was receiving. Michigan more than fulfilled its part of the bargain; the lingering gaps in my education (the inability...