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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."
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.
UPN recently, imprudently, trimmed the word "McNasty" from the title of Shasta McNasty , rendering it a naked Shasta . Here's a way for them to boost their ratings, repair their grievous show-naming error, and still save face: "Gore/Bradley McNasty Smackdown!"
How many fairly grievous lies had I told?
The Daschle proposal would have permitted abortions after viability if continuing the pregnancy posed a risk of "grievous harm" to the mother's health, a determination left solely to the doctor.