Word: clearest
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...debate over the role of religion in politics is clearest when it involves a specific matter of public policy. The most contentious issue is Government tolerance of, and financing for, abortions. On a personal plane, abortion is a moral and religious decision. Politically, pressure continues for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortions, and the G.O.P. platform went so far as to suggest that opposition to abortion should be required of prospective judges. The debate also involves whether those with deeply held views against abortion should feel compelled to oppose policies and politicians more tolerant...
...Walter Mondale to the Carter presidency, reflected a conservative ideology that relished its moment of triumph within the party. In notable contrast to his acceptance speech in Detroit four years ago, Reagan endorsed the tendentious tone with an unusually sharp attack of his own. He called the election "the clearest political choice of half a century," involving "two fundamentally different ways of governing-their Government of pessimism, fear and limits, or ours of hope, confidence and growth." Indeed, he went so far as to suggest that the approach suggested by the Democrats is "accompanied always by more Government authority, less...
...switch gears and interview a skeptic from the right, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. The next night Wallace's scheduled interview with Barbara Bush, the Vice President's wife, was truncated to two questions. But he had good luck as well: he had perhaps the clearest line to the convention's instant media celebrity, Susan Catania, an Illinois delegate who was clamored after because she had decided not to vote to renominate Reagan. Wallace covered her a decade ago, when she was a state legislator and he a local TV reporter in Chicago...
Because they are often the clearest index to a painter's intentions; finished or fragmentary, they are the deposit left by the process of image forming, the residue of the darlings and probings that constitute pictorial thought...
...Socal, Exxon, Shell and Standard Oil of Indiana) control only about 29% of the market. By comparison, the four top companies in the typical manufacturing industry control an average of 40%. Says a top Federal Trade Commission official: "We could conceivably stop the merger, but it would take the clearest sort of signal from Congress before it would happen...