Word: biggest
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...stranded a lot of runners," Prior said. "It's been our biggest problem all year...
...Japanese must also decide whether to turn an unsavory scandal into an opportunity to reform their money-greased political system. That may prove the biggest challenge. Takeshita fell victim to his success at mastering the sometimes seamy rules of the system. In common with other party leaders, Takeshita indirectly received shares of cut-rate stock in Recruit, an aggressive information and real estate conglomerate. In all, Takeshita received more than $1 million in campaign contributions, stocks and secret loans from the company. The money went not to a personal account but to fund campaigns and pay staff salaries...
...Roche offer and sold out to Eastman Kodak instead. "We wanted primarily to establish ourselves in the American over-the-counter market," recalls Hoffmann-La Roche Chairman Fritz Gerber, 60, whose company gets a third of its sales from U.S. operations based in Nutley, N.J. "It's the biggest pharmaceutical market, and it has a lot of future potential...
...time when you could only explain our defense forces in terms of being one small cog in someone else's wheel. We've come to the realization that we will never be able to singlehandedly repulse any determined onslaught on New Zealand. The truth is that the biggest threat to our security is natural disaster. So we have to have a real defense capacity to cope with localized insurrections and to help out in the region when natural disasters strike...
...furor reached a peak on Saturday. As many as 150,000 students and other activists massed in Tiananmen for one of China's biggest demonstrations since the Communist revolution in 1949. As the nation's top leaders filed into the Great Hall for Hu's memorial service behind a wall of 8,000 Chinese troops, the protesters waved their fists and chanted, "Long live freedom!" and "Down with dictatorship!" Some of the leaders seemed to stop momentarily to listen to the shouts. In Xian, to the northwest, the demonstrations turned into a riot as students burned 20 houses and injured...