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Old San Francisco, long gaseous with self-regard (self-esteem is for Oakland), suffered a grievous deflating April 13 when Bank of America--banker to entrepreneurs and immigrants; builder of new industries; capitalizer of the California Dream; financier, indeed, gallant financier of the Golden Gate Bridge--announced its merger with NationsBank to form BankAmerica and its plans to move bank headquarters from San Francisco to Charlotte, N.C.
Since it is obvious that studios will want to immediately correct this grievous social injustice, Today's Papers feels compelled to confess that it is a black woman over fifty.
How many fairly grievous lies had I told?
the Beats really do mark an important moment in American culture, not as one of its achievements, but as a grievous example of its degeneration."
Also in Newsweek , drug-of-last-week ketamine, or "Special K" (see last week's Time), gives way to drug-of-this-week gamma hydroxybutyrate, known as "GHB" or "Grievous Bodily Harm."