Word: clearest
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...Aquino's camp, his support of some of Enrile's positions has made him difficult to read. Last week, confronted by reports that members of the military were planning a coup, Ramos sternly warned "military adventurists" that such action could be "bloody and destabilizing." Declared the general, in his clearest show of support yet for Aquino's fragile government: "It's vital that we safeguard and enhance the gains of the February revolution...
...Georgia, for example, Hamilton Jordan ran on a platform of moving the party to the center but lost to Wyche Fowler, the most liberal Congressmen in the state. In New York, John Dyson had ample money and mushy moderate ideas; he lost to Mark Green, a pugnacious reformer. The clearest choice was in Pennsylvania, where Congressman Bob Edgar ran against State Auditor General Don Bailey; the claim of "real Democrat" flew like a shuttlecock. While in the House, Bailey had backed Reagan on some fiscal and social issues. Edgar, a staunch progressive, had the last word in debate...
Western Europe's heavily state-influenced economies provide perhaps the clearest example among industrialized countries that more government control does not promote faster development. "Europe has been growing desperately slowly," says Jean-Claude Trichet, chief of staff of France's Ministry of Economy, Finance and Privatization. The Continent has been slow to adapt or innovate as economic events moved rapidly, a condition that was dubbed Eurosclerosis. Its experience with high-technology projects, like the Anglo- French Concorde supersonic jet and the national French computer program, have been costly disappointments...
...clearest indications has been the transformation of IRI, a vast state-run conglomerate that dates back to Mussolini. The 1,079 firms in IRI's portfolio include Alfa Romeo, Alitalia airline and Banca Commerciale Italiana, the country's second-largest bank. While this leviathan was losing nearly $2 billion a year, previous governments had been reluctant to touch it. Craxi encouraged IRI's new president, Romano Prodi, to take bold action. He promptly laid off 47,000 unionized workers and raised more than $3 billion by selling all or part of 35 companies and other holdings...
...settling every issue, the court's action encourages employers to push ahead with affirmative action to cure past discrimination. "It will give us a feeling of not being out there fighting the battle all alone," says O.J. Silas, director of affirmative action for Hennepin County (Minneapolis). "This is the clearest thing I've heard in a long time that the courts do mean what they said and support the principles of affirmative action...