Word: hardest
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...manned positions at key intersections in and around the city and guarded the airport and harbor. In the worst riot areas, a nighttime curfew was in effect, but it had come too late to halt the violence by roving bands of rioters, who had killed and maimed and burned. Hardest hit were the industrial towns of Bhiwandi, Thane and Kalyan, northeast of Bombay, where thousands of huts belonging to low-income workers lay in ashes. The government hastily set up temporary camps for the homeless and rushed in emergency food supplies. By week's end Major General Laxman Rawat...
...interest hikes so far have made it even tougher for troubled borrowers to repay their debts. Reason: the rates they pay generally fluctuate with the prime. Among those hardest hit by the rising interest costs have been Latin American and other developing nations, which owe a staggering $810 billion to Western lenders. To keep the borrowers from defaulting, some moneymen, including Chairman Volcker, have suggested that banks consider placing a cap on the interest on their Third World loans...
Aside from the 2.2 million unemployed (9.8% of the work force), the middle class has been hit hardest by Mitterrand's economic program. The main reason is that the tax bite has increased 15% to 20% for many middle-income families. They are now paying higher levies on everything from rented cars to boat insurance and, for some 2 million with annual incomes of more than $20,000, a 5% to 8% surtax on their earnings. As a result, many people have been spending rather than investing their savings...
Privately, the Sandinistas concede that Nicaraguans have grown tired and disheartened in the course of the revolutionary crusade. So, they confess, have they. The former guerrilla fighters describe the current period as one of the hardest they have ever faced in their frequently grim revolutionary careers. They claim that no matter what they do, almost no one outside Nicaragua seems to believe them and that in Washington, the Reagan Administration seems unwilling to give in on any point at all. At times, the comandantes even lapse into the past tense when referring to their revolution. At a Directorate meeting last...
...Boston Globe, which has an aggressive social conscience, won for "special" (usually investigative) local reporting on race relations. One series criticized institutions, including the Globe, for poor minority hiring, and concluded, "Boston today is the hardest metropolitan area in America for a black person to hold a job or earn a promotion." News Photographer Stan Grossfeld, 32, won for portraits of suffering citizens in Lebanon...