Word: fiercest
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...These days, Armstrong's fiercest rivals practically genuflect at the mention of his name, and the international press is already looking ahead to 2002, making the inevitable comparisons between Armstrong and the Tour's legendary riders, Belgian Eddie Merckx and Spaniard Miguel Indurain. But Armstrong shakes off the adulation and speculation with a will that is familiar to anyone who knows him. "My career is going to be played out year by year," he told reporters this month. "The record won?t keep me here. Happiness will...
...proposals for reform range from updating securities laws to overhauling the judicial system. He wants to eradicate bad bank debts in under three years and create 5 million jobs in five years. Some economists accuse him being vague on specifics but credit him for having the right ideas. His fiercest opposition comes from within his own party. LDP bureaucrats fear losing access to government funds from which they've long doled out political patronage. Koizumi needs a big election victory to quiet his critics...
Every April, the NHL commences the fiercest championship tournament in all of professional sports. Game in and game out players repeatedly put their bodies on the line for sixty minutes—and usually beyond—in order to gain the most marginal of advantages to advance their team to the next round...
...relatively quiet today on all fronts. There was some shelling in the morning after the government spurned a cease-fire offer from the rebels, but that stopped by the afternoon. Then tonight the fiercest exchanges of fire yet broke out around Tetovo. So while it appeared there had been some reasons for optimism earlier, the more pessimistic scenario appears to once again be taking hold...
Asian travel agents have long touted cheap tours to the country. And arrivals from Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong are increasing. In Europe, where boycott talk is fiercest, agents in Italy, France and Germany sell Burma on the sly. Only 160,000 foreigners make the trip annually. Operators are now going on the offensive, trumpeting tourism to a cradle of Southeast Asian culture as the best way to benefit the long-suffering Burmese...