Word: grimmest
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Ironically, it is the survivors of the Columbine massacre, rather than the families of the dead, who may stand the best chance of collecting. The grimmest TV footage out of Littleton was of a badly injured boy dangling out of a window until he could be rescued by a SWAT team. Patrick Ireland, 17, was shot in the brain and is partially paralyzed on his right side. He is likely to have enormous medical bills for years. If victims like him were to seek redress in court, it would take a jury with a heart of stone to send them...
Such diktats, however, do not seem to apply to the DOJ suit, potentially the grimmest piece of news Microsoft has received in its 24-year existence. "This antitrust thing will blow over," a lackadaisical Gates told Intel executives back in 1995. When the government's complaint finally hit his desk in 1998, according to his own testimony, the software titan refused to read a word of it. Given the chance to reassess his videotaped Q. and A. in the light of its disastrous courtroom debut, CEO Gates conceded only that he should have "smiled a bit." As Gates the author...
JERUSALEM: On her first official visit to the Middle East, Albright has clearly brought her own inimitable public style to the task: emotional, direct, and with a touch of fire. In Jerusalem, surrounded by bomb victims at the Hadassah University hospital at Mount Scopus, Albright was at her grimmest. "When you actually see the people and see the individual injuries, it brings it home," she said. And when the mother of a 19 year-old victim urged Albright to bear the suicide attacks in mind "when you hug Arafat," Madeleine cut her short. "I am not going to hug Arafat...
...heartthrob is, notoriously, his neighbor's grimmest nightmare: What could he possibly see in her, we ask ourselves, watching the tawdrily dressed, flaky and obsequious woman on his arm (and unable, by definition, to see what he sees in her--and with her--when alone)? And one man's faith is no less impossible for a nonbeliever to fathom: in recent days, millions were celebrating the idea that a man actually rose from the dead, while another doubtless felt that he was committing a holy act that would gain him a place in heaven when he strapped a bomb...
...seats they need to capture the majority. And the chances of that happening, say political analysts like Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution, are as high as fifty-fifty. Republicans are already sounding the alarms, portraying Gephardt and his "radical roster" of paleoliberal committee chairmen in the grimmest terms. "We're the only thing that stands between Clinton and devastation," says California Congressman David Dreier...