"This is one of the most severe bribery affairs that we have known in Israel, because of its circumstances and the people involved in it".
Around this time, he suffered a severe emotional crisis — a love affair that went devastatingly wrong when the person he fell in love with rebuffed him.
The fact that Marin Alsop presided over the affair highlighted the severe underrepresentation of women in the ranks of leading conductors.
Popplewell also defended his 1985 inquiry after the Guardian showed him documents detailing that West Yorkshire police considered it a "seat of the pants affair" with a "severe pruning" of witnesses.
She was also under severe persecution for her alleged affair with Mao.
Such a state of affairs reflects a severe imbalance of power between the public and private sectors.
As a result of the DSK scandal, male French politicians can now expect severe scrutiny of their extra-marital affairs.
"From what we do know, the impact on the auto industry will be severe," David Hyatt, vice president of public affairs for the National Automobile Dealers Association, said in a statement.
"What we are afraid of is when consumers are going outside the United States, they might be getting these risky drugs and suffer some serious and severe side effects," said Tom McGinnis, pharmacy affairs director for the agency.
They may impair a person's functioning in virtually any area of his life, relationships, or external affairs, but they are not severe enough to incapacitate the person.
