Word: fastest
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...Serbs to give up some of their heavy weapons; if they don't, the Americans want to use soldiers and civilian contractors to arm and train the Bosnian Muslim army. The Administration seems convinced that troops can do this and still remain evenhanded peacekeepers; critics say it's the fastest way to destroy the perception of neutrality, and the surest strategy for provoking the Serbs and Croatians. Perry, Christopher and Shalikashvili seemed unruffled by such issues, pointing out that it will be weeks before the Balkan leaders finish their haggling in Ohio--plenty of time, they said, to smooth...
...interests of the union dissidents. Sweeney retorts that the Kirkland legacy is one of an increasingly toothless movement. The challenger offers his own enviable record: since Sweeney became president of the service-workers union in 1980, it has nearly doubled in size, to 1.02 million workers, representing the fastest growth in the AFL-CIO. Late last week Sweeney held a slight edge and was confident of victory...
...fastest person on our team," Delellis says. "She is very aggressive and goal-scoring oriented. She adds a definite quality that our teams have lacked in the past: pure athleticism and strength...
Next came Bangalore, where world-class software engineers are leading a boom that has made it Asia's fastest-growing city and India's answer to the Silicon Valley. Business leaders told us this success depended on deregulation, investment in human capital and internationalization--like the daily video conferences between some Bangalore firms and their corporate brethren in the U.S. Our visit to a slum vividly demonstrated how unevenly the benefits of growth are distributed, but India's dynamic Commerce Minister, P. Chidambaram, emphasized that his generation of Indian leaders, unlike the country's founders, believe only economic growth spurred...
...poster targets gay and lesbian sexual practices as death. This, to us, is a distasteful and wholly inaccurate even AALARMists have enough memory of their freshness to realize that AIDS can be transmitted by a wide the fastest growing group of AIDS sufferers...