Word: clearest
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Foreign matters are striking home because a flood of high-quality and attractively priced imports continues to wash over the U.S., crippling entire industries and putting millions of Americans out of work. The clearest sign of distress is the burgeoning trade deficit, which measures the gap between America's exports and its imports. TIME's board estimated that the shortfall, which is expected to reach a record $150 billion this year, cut in half the growth in the U.S. gross national product during the first six months of 1985. Without that trade deficit, the U.S. would perhaps have had growth...
...clearest message of Men and Angels is that the absence of maternal affection can destroy, although not invariably. Gordon's questions and her manner of raising them are more interesting than the possible answers. The novel's intellectual vigor is occasionally blunted by the earnest opacity of its heroine. Despite the assurances of two different characters that Anne has "a first-rate mind," she often must thrash through her solipsism and self-absorption toward revelations that most adults and bright children already know. She sees a pair of boots in a Manhattan store and realizes, since she is now winning...
Gorbachev provided the clearest outline of his agenda in his 30-minute acceptance speech to the Central Committee the day he took office. He offered no strikingly new programs or proposals. His emphasis was on continuity. Said Gorbachev: "The strategic line, worked out at the 26th Party Congress (and) at the subsequent plenary meetings of the Central Committee with the vigorous participation of Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov and Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, has been and remains unchanged...
...were assured that their company would remain under local control; yet some jobs will probably be lost. Shareholders saw the price of their Phillips stock rise from less than $40 when the battle began to the mid-50s in December and close last week at 49 3/ 8. The clearest winners were the raiders. Centimillionaires already, they became richer still. Pickens and his partners walked away with an $89 million pretax profit, while Icahn will gain at least $50 million for 30 days of high- pressure maneuvering. Said he: "I'm happy the shareholders benefited. But I'm no Robin...
Along time coming. Too long, by any reckoning, to wait for a new record by a man who has written some of the clearest, most enduring songs in all of rock. But Centerfield, John Fogerty's first album since 1975, sounds as if he has never been away: out of time but never out of touch. His music always seemed timeless anyhow, torn out of some imaginary territory in rock's persistent musical past, and it always seemed natural. It still does. Only it has all come very hard...