Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minor offenses that have a maximum sentence of one month in prison or 45 days at hard labor; 2) special courts-martial, which mainly try enlisted men for crimes that carry a bad-conduct discharge and up to six months in prison; and 3) general courts-martial, which handle serious crimes that can lead to life imprisonment and even the death penalty...
...representative of the nation's airlines, would like to install the system (estimated cost: $24,000 to $50,000 per unit) aboard all commercial aircraft by 1974. But there is one serious drawback. Unless CAS is also carried by private planes, it will not prevent such collisions as the one between a big passenger jet and a small private plane near Indianapolis last month that killed 83 people. Many aviation men feel that the only long-range protection against more aerial tragedies lies in an all-encompassing, new air-traffic control system that would keep tabs on every plane...
Literature or Revelation. The authors faced formidable problems trying to meet the Supreme Court's requirements and at the same time answer serious theological objections. Though the Clark formula is clear, critics have argued that objectivity is difficult to realize in practice. Most religion courses, Jews maintain, are bound to reflect a Christian bias in what is historically a Christian society. Other critics insist that true impartiality, in any event, distorts the real nature of religion as a sense of the ultimate. "Reading the Bible as literature rather than as revelation," says Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of Hebrew Union College...
...appropriation has not come through Congress yet, so things may change a little, but in any case things are very serious for us," Leahy said...
...cuts may limit "the kinds of things that can be done-it could end up beingvery serious," Bogorad said. He explained that much of the equipment used in natural sciences research is very expensive to purchase and maintain, and that the funds used for these purposes come directly from research grants...