Word: grievous
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...best way to toughen up, Katie decided, was to look past the grievous injuries and to treat her patients as friends, not as amputees. She got to know them as intimately as they would permit, moving quickly beyond their hobbies and children's names. With her soft touch and sisterly concern, she often picked up more information than the hospital psychologists. Captain Katie knew if a soldier was checking out Internet dating services, fighting with a spouse, fretting about bills, or struggling to knot a tie with one hand. She made a habit of staying up at night to acquaint...
...after the divestment in April, the University again spoke about its holdings, saying that the divestiture “reflect[ed] deep concerns about the grievous crisis that persists in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...allowing rivals in the government to launch a political takeover of the MI-5 security service. In many ways, it resembles 24--the subterfuge, the personal entanglements, the willingness to kill major characters--but MI-5 is less pyrotechnic and more cerebral. The good guys harbor doubts and make grievous mistakes, and the series offers no easy moral answers. In the war against terrorism, MI-5 understands, uncertainty is the scariest thing...
...discriminate against low-income students with no clear national gain. The consequences of the legislation therefore threaten the American ideals of access to unconditional secondary education for all and the right of Americans to make their own choices about their interests and vocations. The grants are thus a grievous error...
...comparison,” Park wrote. “The water buffalo incident surrounded racial prejudice already latent on campus. Sex is sex.”BACKING DOWNAnd this time around, the university backed down.According to Geier, university officials said that they had “made a grievous error” and they were dropping all the charges at a recent meeting.The university does not acknowledge error in its official statement, which Geier said was “some confusing mishmosh and an attempt to save face.”Both Kors and Geier criticized the OSC?...