Word: fiercest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start of the fiercest scientific debate about medical ethics since the birth of the first test-tube baby 15 years ago. A line had been crossed. A taboo broken. A Brave New World of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order, seemed, if not just around the corner, then just over the horizon. Ethicists called up nightmare visions of baby farming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policymakers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. bioethical leadership. Critics decried the commercialization of fertility technology, and protesters took to the streets, calling for an immediate ban on human-embryo cloning. Scientists...
...fiercest attacks in more than a decade, Israeli warplanes and artillery rained fire on southern Lebanese villages in retaliation for rocket attacks by the pro-Iranian guerrillas of Hizballah. Israel agreed to a U.S.-brokered truce in the weeklong offensive only after Hizballah pledged to stop guerrilla raids. More than half a million refugees have fled the U.N.-controlled southern security zone in recent weeks. The U.S. rebuked all parties, including Israel and Syria, for slowing the peace process...
...Even her fiercest critics acknowledge her ethical hygiene. Here is a public servant who pays list price for a new car to avoid any charge of getting a sweet deal. In a department under fire for being deeply politicized and ethically challenged, drifting past successive scandals from B.C.C.I. to Iraqgate, employees consider her their best chance at redemption. Reno has, says an observer from Capitol Hill, "established a certain air of integrity that is emanating from that department. You cannot diminish the value of having the head of the Justice Department being recognized nationally for strength, integrity and honesty. That...
...BOTTOM LINE: Arnold Schwarzenegger battles his fiercest foe yet: the rumor mill that says his pricey new movie will fail...
...even the fiercest critics could not deny that it was Koresh who placed 25 children in harm's way, who preyed on people who were weak and lonely and hungry for certainty. Certainty he gave them, and abundantly. He was certain of his vision of good and evil, certain of his special insight into the deepest mysteries of faith, certain of an afterlife that promised glory for those who had suffered for their souls. If he is right about that, and there is any justice in it, Koresh has not seen the last of the flames. And the devil...