Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everybody was convinced, however, that the tax would really generate a net gain in jobs. Feldstein predicted the plan would end up siphoning off jobs from energy-related sectors. Some on Capitol Hill complained that the proposal was not aimed at areas hardest hit by high unemployment. Said Wyoming Republican Congressman Dick Cheney: "You can make a case that the roads and bridges need work. But I don't believe that it will add jobs...
...most New Yorkers. As cheerful treatment of the trivialities of life. Nemy's column evinces a blithe ignorance and unconcern for the world's misfortunes. Elderly New Yorkers may he eating per food and locking themselves in unsafe apartments, but Nemy chatters on with the cheerful opinion that the hardest thing about growing old in America these days is the little white lies one must tell to keep one's age a secret...
...explained that the hardest aspect of building the JFK memorial was "trying to catch Jack's style and grace" without the benefit of his personal advice and oversight...
Ironically, Brezhnev's most conspicuous failure was in agriculture, where he tried hardest. In spite of an outsize 33% share of total Soviet investment-far higher than the figure for any other industrial country-agriculture has become such a fiasco that the embarrassed Soviets have ceased publishing figures on grain production. During Brezhnev's final years of rule, the country was bedeviled by acute shortages of meat, butter and cheese. Of course, Brezhnev cannot be blamed for the Soviet Union's periodic bouts of bad weather. But other problems plaguing the country's farms proved endemic...
...Battle Hymn of the Republic, and erstwhile Starlet Chris Noel recreated the Armed Forces Radio show she had broadcast to U.S. servicemen in Indochina during the 1960s. During intermission, retired General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, signed autographs. The hardest working star was Wayne Newton, who flew in from Las Vegas and performed gratis. For 90 minutes, he played the banjo and trumpet, sang soul songs and Danke Schön, danced and winked. Said one Wisconsin vet: "I wouldn't have picked Wayne Newton. But I don't know...