Word: hardest
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...more work to do to make their spending plan stick. The House resolution now goes to a conference committee that will try to work out a compromise with a budget passed by the Senate last month that provides for $19 billion more in spending. Then comes the hardest part: the "reconciliation" process, in which various congressional committees must make their 1983 spending and tax legislation conform with the budget guidelines. In an election year, there will be a temptation to fund politically popular programs and vote against tax measures, even if it means busting the budget plan. Says Heftel...
...member of the Pope's entourage: "He is a good dash man but not a miler. He gets awfully tired after a sprint. But the crowd scenes and the youth meetings seem to inject adrenaline into his veins." Concluded Glasgow Catholic Archbishop Thomas Winning: "This was his hardest mission. The British are a phlegmatic people, yet he captured them completely...
...Those hardest hit by unemployment--the lower-middle and lower classes and minorities--have received another clear message of betrayal. The cancellation of billions of dollars worth of social programs to alleviate suffering and give deprived groups a chance for betterment dramatizes the government slack of interest in making America a land of opportunity for those who most need it. The cuts and impending cuts in educational aid have turned the age-old ideal of economic betterment and class mobility into a wisp of myth...
...Diana has made a really good captain because she is one of the hardest workers on the team and she has always been so supportive of everyone else," junior Cindy Phillips said. "We always tease her and say that she hasn't outgrown being a freshman because it is traditional that the freshmen carry the equipment at the end of the game, but Diane is still doing...
...near Dallas, finally paid off her last bills in March. She and her new husband make "limited use" of their credit cards. Jeanne, the California businesswoman, is still paying but looks on her situation as "one of those life crises we will have to overcome together." One of the hardest parts, she says, was "the attitude that, gee, if I'm working, I deserve $400 suits and expensive dinners. No more. Now we plan a night together watching television. Or we go jogging...