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WHEN YOU think of difficult jobs, you think of high-risk jobs. Policemen face death daily. So do emergency room doctors. Skyscraper window washers know that grievous bodily harm is just a wrong step away. But then again, these jobs feature a certain amount of excitement, a few shots of adrenalin now and then to break up the workday routine. The pressure is high, and mistakes can be deadly. It's easy to stay awake...
...Yipes, a grievous error. But soon I was reconnected...
Although the document's wording is not yet complete, it will call on the presidential hopefuls to renew a partnership between government, industry, and higher education to address grievous societal problems, William C. Friday, chairman of the report's commission, said yesterday...
...diverse dubious deeds but by the fact that each in his or her own way has somehow seemed to betray the public trust: Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, Michael Deaver, Ivan Boesky, Gary Hart, Clayton Lonetree, Jim and Tammy Bakker, maybe Edwin Meese, perhaps even the President. Their transgressions -- some grievous and some petty -- run the gamut of human failings, from weakness of will to moral laxity to hypocrisy to uncontrolled avarice. But taken collectively, the heedless lack of restraint in their behavior reveals something disturbing about the national character. America, which took such back-thumping pride in its spiritual renewal...
...Minister Elmer MacKay told the House of Commons last week that on Oct. 30 microfiche records on nearly every 1985 Canadian taxpayer -- documents so reduced that all of them could fit inside a shoe box -- were stolen from Toronto's District Taxation Center. It was, said MacKay, the "most grievous blow to confidentiality in the department's history...