Word: fewest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Place with fewest species on list: Washington...
...that effective risk-management systems are in place in the private sector," he observed in a 1996 paper. "As financial systems become more complex, detailed rules and standards have become both burdensome and ineffective." In fact, many governments are competing with one another to see who can offer the fewest regulations. And the money is following right along. Economist Skoorka calls this regulatory arbitrage--the flight of money from highly regulated markets to barely regulated ones...
...areas that were most seriously hit were coincidentally the ones with the fewest alumni," Gerlach said...
Fantini and challenger Charles L. Stead Sr., both endorsed by the Alliance, received the fewest votes, 1,740 and 953, respectively...
...always a primitive terror to be cast out of the tribe and made to wander as a stranger. Today a famous person--Arnold Schwarzenegger, say, or Sylvester Stallone, those universal action figures whose films require the fewest subtitles and therefore address masses most eloquently in remote cultures--might go anywhere on earth and never be a stranger. Is that desirable? Or a horror? Such planetary recognition may be as dangerous, in a different way, as being an unknown alien once...