Word: fiercest
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...sudden turns pop up and bumps are flying at you ... and that is part of the excitement," he says. But as the swells got bigger, their speed increased, and even Hamilton's pumped-up arms couldn't paddle fast enough to launch him onto the fiercest waves before they passed underneath...
...confronting Petraeus. Iraq's forces still remain high-profile, relatively soft target in most parts of the country. And although a deal has been brokered with a number of political parties to dissolve their militia and integrate them into the new military, Petraeus has hit the wall with the fiercest militia of all: the Mehdi Army of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr. "The truth is, I think the Iraqi political leaders are going to have to determine the way ahead on that one," he says...
...with the mercury rising to 85 degrees yesterday—nearly 30 degrees above average April temperatures—the heat slowed even the fastest and fiercest competitors...
...championed the cause of Americanization and promoted assimilation of immigrants into the mainstream.” The same cannot be said of most American cultural elites in 2004. One need look no further than their unrepentant support for bilingual education. It is now clear to all but the fiercest ideologues that bilingual education has hindered Latinos’ upward mobility. But those who dare question its effect on immigrant families are continually smeared as racists...
...noon briefings. "In the end, I had to decide what was best for competition and consumers in Europe." The details of that decision will be announced this week, after the European Commission signs off on it, but the terms have already been widely telegraphed. It promises to be the fiercest regulatory sanction Microsoft has received, far exceeding the settlement the company made with the U.S. Justice Department and several states two years ago. In that deal, it agreed to license some of its software code to competitors and let dealers and others remove icons for Microsoft products from computer desktops...