Word: hardest
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Balancing-or perhaps outbalancing-that consideration, though, Ferraro decisively answered one of the hardest questions she had faced as a newcomer to national politics: How would she behave in a crisis? Veteran politicians of both parties gave her high marks for handling that crisis with unruffled calm, crisp authority and low-key humor. "She's tough; she put her head down and stuck with it," said Republican Senate Leader Howard Baker. Tony Coelho, chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, compared Ferraro to the most successful politician in the U.S. today: "She handled it exactly like Ronald Reagan...
...federal government controls over energy prices. Mulroney, on the other hand, has promised not to make drastic cuts in Canada's generous social-welfare system and has said that he agrees with the Liberals on the need to develop job-training programs for young people, who have been hardest hit by the shrunken job market. In a notable break with Trudeau, both Turner and Mulroney have avoided gratuitous complaints about U.S. dominance of the Canadian economy...
...hardest thing to get used to is that no matter where you're at trying to work, there are always people having fun and making noise," laments Matthews resident Bita Kahmsi...
...assignment more as a fringe benefit than a job. Then he began to worry whether he was quite ready for a warm, wisecracking columnist whose chief concerns are the household gods. Says he: "Some journalists are fond of saying that the nice guys are the toughest, nice subjects the hardest. I didn't know: I could not remember the last time I had met one. What if I were to become the only person on earth to meet Erma Bombeck and not like...
...Every day was a real challenge," she says of her years on the basketball court. "To say 'I'm going to keep my head up' was the hardest thing...