Word: grievously
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...Ohio's construction is a seven-year ordeal of mismanagement. Certain components were made from understrength steel, and the replacement cost was nearly $1 million. The sub contains 117,000 especially important welds; 2,772 were botched. Rewelding cost $2.6 million. Perhaps the most grievous flaw was in the sub's engine. Turbine blades were a few critical microns too large; they scraped their housing and cracked. It required $3 million to put the blades right. Electric Boat insists that it was not at fault, since the turbine was built by General Electric directly for the Government. Indeed...
Forget Mr. Blackwell's "worst dressed" lists. Professors of history and politics at the Catholic University of America in Washington have taken a vote and come up with the "ten most villainous people in history," a collection of rotters guilty of sins even more grievous than wearing brown shoes with a blue suit. The envelope, please. In chronological order: Caligula, despotic Emperor of Rome from A.D. 37 to 41; Nero, full-time Emperor and sometime violinist who struck sour notes in Rome from 54 to 68; Attila the Hun, who led his barbaric tribe from 433 to 453; Ivan...
WHILE JEANNE KIRKPATRICK'S foreign policy may be too harshly pragmatical to be morally justifiable, as well as being overly short-sighted, the majority editorial commits a far more grievous error: By condemning U.S. actions which may be somewhat detrimental to human rights in Latin America, it fails to deal with the likelihood that total withdrawal from involvement in Latin American affairs will produce human tragedy on a far greater scale throughout this troubled region. For such withdrawal--no matter what hopes the majority would like to express about the possibility of prompting the Soviets and Cubans to also leave...
Actually, of course, the President neither expected nor wanted a recession as severe as the one that has begun. The most serious charge against him-and it is a grievous one-is that he failed to take sufficiently vigorous action against inflation until it soared past 18%. Once inflation had gone that far, a deep recession became inevitable: consumers simply had to cut back their buying of goods and services because prices were rising so much faster than incomes...
Montgomery said he hopes to help find professors to fill two positions in the department, including the one that Michael Walzer, professor of Government, will vacate next fall. "Walzer's departure is a grievous loss," he added...