Word: easiest
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However, securing enough votes to ensure election may prove to be the easiest of all tasks for the ultimate winner. Success for the new government and a peaceful future for the entire country hinges upon the president's ability to deal effectively with the three major elements controlling the current chaotic situation--the army, the rebels and the U.S. Congress...
Weinberger is the easiest to pick at, because, by most accounts, he is one of the worst defense secretaries ever. He is not stupid, nor have his policy proposals, in their own may, been insignificant. By pressuring unremmittingly for a huge arms build-up, he has redefined the debate on defense spending. The question is no longer do we have increases of a few percent in the budget; it is do we increase it by more than 10 percent...
...current exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings at New York City's Metropolitan Museum is, one need hardly point out, a must for almost anyone who is interested in either drawings or bodies. All the same, it is not the easiest of shows. Its predecessor, the Met's 1981 exhibition of his studies of landscape and water and plants (lent, like this one, from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle), was more open to the nonspecialist, if only because more people have mused on water currents or leaves than on the maxillary sinus...
...Immediate bilateral freeze. This includes testing, production and deployment of any nuclear device. This would terminate the MX missile and Trident, but it would also eliminate all future Soviet nuclear weapons. If it is true that the Soviets are embarking on a massive buildup this is the easiest and safest way to stop...
They could not even dispose of the bodies, and bodies are the easiest part to dispose of. Murderers do it frequently, with a tub full of acid; even the teeth will go eventually. Ideas are something else, however. Much more difficult to get rid of them. Memories are peculiarly tenacious. Hitler may have discovered as much after the German High Command issued its Nacht und Nebel decree in the western occupied territories, enabling authorities to snatch citizens off the street and out of their homes under night and fog. "The prisoners will vanish without a trace," read the decree. They...