Word: easiest
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...warheads launched would explode on or over their targets. That would cause mass loss of life, but could leave most U.S. retaliatory capacity intact. Boost-phase interception, however, is generally considered to be the key to an even partially effective defense. That is when the enemy projectiles are easiest to find: the intense heat of a missile's rocket thrusters, concedes the anti-S.D.I. Union of Concerned Scientists, makes it stand out "like a firefly in a darkened room." That is also when a missile defense is most efficient: a single hit, by a laser beam, for instance...
Trailing the Huskies, 6-0, after two periods, the icewomen rallied back with two goals just when it would have been easiest to stay in the locker room and call it a night...
...easiest thing we could do would be to provide arms to the non-communist group struggling against the Vietnamese under the direction of former Cambodian premier Son Sann. He has made numerous--and so far unsuccessful--trips to the United States to raise support for his entirely worthwhile cause. Not only would such a move make sense morally, it would make sense strategically, because it would give Son Sann's group greater leverage in its marriage of convenience with the Khmer Rouge and former head of state, Prince Sihanouk. Given the Administration's rhetoric about fighting communism, it is hard...
Gordon says he feels that 1982 decision to boost the goal was, in and of itself, a major reason that the campaign succeeded. "The easiest thing to do would have been to take the $250 million and call it a day," says Gordon. "That showed great courage, and gave a big boost to the alumni...
...hired non-union workers and began a movement to decertify the United Steel Workers of America from the right to bargain collectively on behalf of the workers. This means, in effect, that the copper mines would be de-unionized simply by firing all of the union labor. The easiest way to fire workers is to simply precipitate a strike...