Word: fiercest
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Once it was out, the news that human embryos had been cloned flew around the world with the speed of sound bites bouncing off satellites ... It was the 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...
...best films until the holidays and then deluge Variety and The Hollywood Reporter with flashy “For Your Consideration” ads throughout the first month of the year. As awards season battles between the studios intensified in recent years, Miramax became known as one of the fiercest Oscar campaigners, successfully driving dubious fare like Gangs of New York, Chocolat, and The Cider House Rules to Best Picture nominations...
...team that returned all but one member from the team that went 22-5 and a perfect 14-0 in the Ivy League, the Crimson’s fiercest rival has been itself...
...fiercest moment comes when he leans over his friend, ailing and bearing the deadly Ring, and declares, "Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you. But I can carry you." The scene has evoked tears from strong men and yanked Astin into the awards limelight. Yet as much as he reveres Jackson, Astin believes the wrong take is in the film."I know the way I delivered the line was so much more powerful than what the audience sees. That was one of the great acting achievements of my life, and I feel only...
...making process that brought its Foreign Ministers to Naples late last week. Britain, Poland and Spain have been voicing grave misgivings about relinquishing ever-more sovereignty to this non-nation that goes by the name of Europe. The Franco-German power play has sharpened those anxieties even more. The fiercest battle in Europe's constitutional conclave, as in any such convention, is about balancing the weight of small states against the clout of the bigger ones. By acting as they did, France and Germany unwittingly gave Britain, Poland and Spain a foretaste of worse things to come...