Word: fiercest
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From Guadeloupe to Montserrat to St. Croix and Puerto Rico, one of the fiercest storms of the decade leaves a path of destruction. Charleston bears the brunt of the hurricane in the U.S. before it turns inland and diminishes. -- A ruling on embryos in Tennessee may complicate the debate over abortion...
Frederic assaulted the Bahamas, Alabama and Mississippi just two weeks after Hurricane David killed 1,200 people in the Dominican Republic, then spread destruction from Florida to Canada. Hugo was the fiercest storm to strike the U.S. East Coast since then. Last year, almost to the week, Gilbert, a maximum Category 5 hurricane with 175-m.p.h. winds, had howled along a more westerly course, pounding Jamaica before stomping into Mexico and the U.S. Gulf Coast...
When Continental Airlines set off a round of deep discounts on Aug. 1, rival carriers hoped the price cutting would end by autumn. But last week Trans World Airlines launched the fiercest fare war in more than two years by slashing its lowest rates on round-trip fall tickets. A typical reduction would cut the cheapest Chicago-San Francisco fare from $323 to $198. The heavily restricted discounts apply to tickets purchased by Sept. 1 for U.S. flights from Sept. 9 to Dec. 15. Other airlines quickly matched the cut-rate fares. Eastern, struggling to return to the air despite...
...drugs on the job. A 1986 Executive Order by former President Reagan authorizes drug testing throughout the Federal Government. So far, more than 50 agencies, including the Agriculture and Interior Departments, have moved to start up programs. The random, unscheduled urine tests that some agencies use have drawn the fiercest opposition from staff members. No fewer than 14 challenges | are winding their way through appellate courts...
...north of the Arctic Circle, has long endured jokes about its name. But last week no one in Coldfoot -- or anywhere else in Alaska -- was in much of a mood to laugh about the temperature. For a whole month, the entire state had been gripped by one of the fiercest Arctic cold waves on record. Some towns in the interior registered temperatures as low as -75 degrees F for days a time. As for Coldfoot, an unconfirmed reading there two weeks ago put the temperature at -82 degrees, colder than the official North American record of -81 degrees...