Word: fiercest
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...Janis Joplin and LSD. Richardson and Fielding are there to remind us that "free love" was around centuries before the 1960s, may have taken a break during the 50s, but was about to make a strong return by the late 60s. The characters in Tom Jones are among the fiercest drinkers and wildest lovers in all of history...
...this century, the world witnessed the dramatic and transforming impact on those events of live television by satellite. The very definition of news was rewritten -- from something that has happened to something that is happening at the very moment you are hearing of it. A war involving the fiercest air bombardment in history unfolded in real time -- before the cameras. The motherland of communism overthrew its leaders and their doctrine -- before the cameras. To a considerable degree, especially in Moscow, momentous things happened precisely because they were being seen as they happened...
Given the concrete challenges that California faces in trying to absorb and appease so many diverse groups -- challenges to the school system, the housing market, the job market, the infrastructure -- it is ironic that some of the fiercest battles revolve around largely symbolic issues. Much of the tension arises from misunderstandings rooted in the clash of cultures. These days it is impossible even to formulate stereotypes about Asians or Hispanics, because those categories conceal much more than they reveal. Koreans and Japanese continue to deride one another; Peruvians resent being mistaken for Mexicans. The largest Asian group...
Some of the fiercest controversy has come over what role Russia should play in a new union of the republics. Vice President Rutskoi denounced the new economic treaty as "banditry" that would allow the other republics to treat Russia as a "milch cow," then changed his mind when Ukraine pulled out. Burbulis has insisted that Russia should proclaim itself the "successor state" to the old Soviet Union and take over the institutions of central government. That has only intensified other republics' fear of being swallowed up into a new Russian empire...
...chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Representative John Dingell has gained a reputation as Capitol Hill's fiercest -- and most feared -- watchdog on fiscal prudence. His well-publicized investigations have focused on everything from wasteful military spending to sloppy accounting for federal research funds at universities. So whose name should be high on the list of congressional check bouncers? Yes, John Dingell...