Word: hardest
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...Reagan launched his much heralded "fall offensive" to reform the tax code, he was faced with the hardest political test of his presidency: how, as an incipient lame duck, to translate his immense personal popularity into congressional support for his policies. Where legislators once feared his power to go over their heads to the voters, many have now grown restive and defiant...
...nearly three decades, Detroit has been the scene of one of the costliest and hardest-fought newspaper rivalries in the U.S. In a battle for dominance of the sixth largest market in the nation, the powerful Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc. has spent an estimated $23 million since 1979 to cover losses at the morning Detroit Free Press (circ. 646,476). The smaller, family-run Evening News Association, which owns the all-day Detroit News (circ. 666,949), has paid even more. It allegedly used revenues from five television and two radio stations to offset an estimated $41.5 million in losses...
...hardest part of the whole year was learning to pronounce and spell my roommate Mark Csweyrwjhergj's, I mean, Mark Csikszentmihalyi's last name...
...phrase often used to describe the College is also applicable to the bars around Harvard Square: the hardest thing about them is getting in. But, while the presence of an off-duty cop or huge bouncer in from of big state warnings can be frightening to the neophyte Square drinker, the atmosphere inside most establishments is pleasant and easygoing...
...exchange she got New York City's mean streets ("a terrible sight, all that garbage"), its Augean subway ("so loud and dirty"). Davidovich quickly fled to the apartment in Kew Gardens ("quiet, with trees and a fresh smell"). Perhaps the hardest thing to bear was her professional anonymity, the necessity of starting a career over again. "It was very difficult," remembers Davidovich, whose still limited command of English requires her to use an interpreter. "I was very famous in the Soviet Union. I had my public. I did not know if it would be good for me in the United...