Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real enough danger is that Campos' plan will slow Brazil's economy too rapidly, thus bringing a recession. And this is the fear that Lacerda plays on hardest. He describes his own, somewhat fuzzy economic plan as "a policy of development in spite of inflation." Instead of attacking inflation on all fronts, he would only cut back in certain "state-run monopolies." Rather than reduce credit, he wants to expand it, demands a salary policy that would increase consumer buying power, and asks an end to commodity controls. Says Lacerda: "I would give more money to agriculture...
...Blasted hardest of all were junkyard owners, who sent their own representatives, tried desperately to defend themselves by defining their roadside eyesores as "a retail automobile-dismantling shop engaged in a business that is neither dishonest nor degrading." Harvard Law School Professor Charles Haar snapped back, "The only way to clean up these places is through strong legislation; voluntary actions on the part of junkyard owners are few and far between...
...college student, I firmly believe in our right to question everything. Our youth entitles us to be idealistic and perhaps rebellious; the state of the world that we are about to inherit entitles us to be a little cynical. But I fear that the hardest lesson some of us will have to learn is that neither idealism, rebellion, nor cynicism can successfully cope with the world-only realism. The real tragedy of those students would be a continuation of their sophomoric behavior after they leave their ivied limbo...
...Croatia to the sunny villages of Dalmatia prices are the prime topics of conversation in Yugoslavia. Resort operators grumble that soaring costs will dampen the $90 million-a-year tourist trade. The cost of living, up 19% last year, spiraled another 9% in 1965's first quarter. The hardest hit was food, which has risen an average 30% in the past year; such items as beef, pork, apples, potatoes and top-quality slivovitz (plum brandy) have jumped between 50% and 100%. Prices have also risen for everything from haircuts to shirts. Though wages have risen by one-third...
Robert Ginn has the hardest job, and he almost succeeds. His Arnold is consistent, believably cantankerous, but rather flat. He doesn't pick a particular interpretation to project...