Word: hardest
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...eyes of the polite world, Ernest Hemingway has much to answer for. Armed with the hardest-hitting prose of the century, he has used his skill and power to smash rose-colored spectacles right & left, to knock many a genteel pretence into a sprawling grotesque. Detractors have called him a bullying bravo, have pointed out that smashing spectacles and pushing over a pushover are not brave things to do. As the "lost generation" he named* have grown greyer and more garrulous, so his own invariably disillusioned but Spartan books have begun to seem a little dated; until it began...
...hardest rapes for women to report are "acquaintance rapes" or "date rapes," an increasingly common practice on college campuses. In these attacks, which represent about half of all reported rapes, the victim knows her assailant, sometimes just to say hello to and sometimes on a friendlier basis. That makes the victim fear people will regard her as guilty in some way. Says Martha Burt, research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington: "Women end up being their own worst punishers...
...women's and children's apparel last year, has never been weaker. Since 1973, at least 600,000 jobs have disappeared, leaving fewer than 1.9 million. Low-wage producers in the Far East and Latin America are gobbling up American markets like a Pac-Man run amuck. Hardest hit among U.S. manufacturers is Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, which has the largest share of domestic apparel sales. It is beset by relatively high labor costs, exorbitant rents and a panoply of other problems that come from doing business in the heart of a huge city...
...Munro's New York City studio. The session, which cost $75 per hour per baby, was unstructured. "The babies did whatever they felt like," says Munro. "If they fell over, we didn't sit them up. If they dribbled, we didn't clean them up. The hardest part was getting their mothers to leave them alone...
Democrats argued that a limit was necessary because the President's tax cut helps people primarily in higher income brackets. By contrast, the $720 cap would have hit hardest some 4 million taxpayers earning $50,000 or more a year. But Republicans pointed out that a roughly equal number of middle-class families and individuals earning between $30,000-$50,000 a year would also benefit from the full cut. For instance, a $30,000-a-year married couple (one child, filing a joint return, claiming four exemptions) can now expect a tax saving of about $430 annually...