Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion stock offering by an employment-services company called Blue Arrow flopped and NatWest ended up in possession of 13.4% of the company's shares, a holding it illegally concealed from market regulators for months. In announcing his resignation, effective Sept. 30, Lord Boardman, 70, admitted that "there were serious failings" in handling the Blue Arrow issue...
Even George Bush got into the act, telling reporters that the case against Bloch was a "very serious matter." That was as far as the Government was willing to go on an official level. The State Department confirmed that Bloch is being investigated for a "compromise of security which has occurred," but at week's end no charges had been filed against him, and he remained on paid leave from the department at an estimated $80,000 annual salary. Austrian officials confirmed that they were investigating a "phony Finn" who had traveled to Vienna several times on a forged passport...
...investigators and reporters jostled for scraps of information about yet another apparent traitor, did anyone care that under the law Bloch was still presumed innocent? His case may indeed prove to be the most serious spy scandal to come out of the State Department since the Alger Hiss affair. But, wrote columnist Lars-Erik Nelson of the New York Daily News, Bloch "is also a U.S. citizen, entitled to due process before execution." Charles Schmitz, vice president of the American Foreign Service Association, said the baying after Bloch was "terrible either way -- for his rights if innocent, for the case...
Though the DC-10 had suffered no serious problems since a string of crashes in the late 1970s, superstitious air travelers were beginning to wonder if the plane was now simply too spooked to fly. No less troubled was the International Airline Passengers Association, a Dallas-based consumer group that claims 110,000 members. After the Sioux City crash, the I.A.P.A. demanded that the Federal Aviation Administration investigate possible design flaws in the DC-10 and ground the nation's fleet if necessary...
...videotape, Cicippio said: "I appeal to each person having honor who can move to release Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, don't be late because they are very serious to hang us and the period become very soon and the hours very little...