Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always close, became ill. She hugs herself with thin arms at the recollection: "I'd never had anyone close to me die. I'd never been with anybody when they died, certainly not anyone close. Then, I had to go tell my mother, which was probably the hardest thing I'd ever had to do in my whole life. And now she's sick...
...backing was the hardest question of all. After scrounging a tidy bankroll for manufacture, the partners test-marketed 1,100 units in 1981. All were sold within a few weeks. Another loan from a bank manager who got hooked on the game enabled the entrepreneurs to produce 20,000 more. Word of mouth did the rest. The game acquired a cult following in Canada, and in 1982 Selchow & Righter, the venerable U.S. games company (Parcheesi), began manufacturing it in the U.S. British and Australian versions are imminent, and next year French, German, Dutch, and children's renditions will follow...
...work out a game plan when you spend all week shuffling people, that's the hardest thing in the world," the Crimson coach added...
Number-five player Robeita Hing won the hardest fought match of the weekend against her Cavalier foe, losing the first set by a 6-2 count, but gaining her momentum to turn the tables in the second, 6-3. The third set, a 7-5 cliffhanger, was full of games that went to the 3-3 brink, a product of the no-ad rule in collegiate tennis...
Some of the schools trying the hardest are those with the worst problems. About 30% of the students at Edison High School in Miami's riot-scarred Liberty City are Creole-speaking Haitians; another 14% are students, predominantly Hispanic, who are learning English as a second language. Principal Craig Sturgeon believes that discipline is essential for learning. "We make our expectations and the punishment clear," he says. "When people are late, they are taken to the cafeteria to work on their basic skills. The second time it happens, we contact the parents, and the third time, they are forced...