Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hardest of all is their total dependence on July himself. They owe him their lives, yet the Smaleses find it galling that the servant has become their master. He insists on keeping the keys to the van; they do not want to trust him with this power over their fates. He still maintains the routine of serving them, bringing them tea in the morning and shopping for supplies; they wonder if this behavior is not reproachful, a way of setting them apart from the life of the village. The white wife cannot join the women in their daily routines...
...Hardest hit were big, older cities like Cambridge. The tax collecters here took in $84 million in local property taxes this year; but next fiscal year, as 2 1/2 is phased in, the total will be $12 million less. By the time the law is fully phased in, four years hence, city officials say they will have enough money left to pay Cambridge's share of county and mass transit costs, the interest on its debt, and pensions--but nothing else. No policemen. No firemen. No teachers...
...help grade the final: there are no central lectures. For 20 to 25 hours of work a week, they earn something like $2000 for a semester, depending on experience. "You can earn more in other jobs," Todd Kaye '81, head teaching fellow for Math Ar, says, "and besides the hardest work comes when you're the busiest, around hourlies and finals...
...venerable stock exchange, the Bourse, had to postpone its opening because there were no buyers to establish prices. When the doors did open at 1 p.m., there was an avalanche of sell orders from anxious investors. Stock prices fell by 9% within minutes and trading had to be suspended. Hardest hit were stocks of the industries that Mitterrand proposes to nationalize...
...ways in which marriage has ill used his wife as well as himself. Weston's worrier is rich and touching as it becomes clear that his comic fussings over his diet and his money are a way of raging against the dying of the light. Alda is perhaps hardest on the man he plays, showing that the very characteristic that has made him one of the country's most popular actors - sweet common sense - can sometimes prevent one from feeling anything very profoundly...