Word: hardest
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...aggressive Japanese are a key factor in the European auto slump. Hardest hit are countries that do not have an agreement with Japan to limit imports. In Sweden, for example, Volvo and Saab assembly lines have been working three-day weeks. The Japanese have increased their market share in that country from 1% in 1970 to 14% at present...
...problem was where to put Weinberger, and the answer seemed to be in the Pentagon, primarily because Secretary of Defense was the hardest senior post to fill. Other candidates kept getting ruled out. Texas Senator John Tower campaigned for the job, but Reagan wanted him in stead to be chairman of the Armed Services Committee in the new Republican-controlled Senate. John Connally pushed to become either Secretary of State or Defense, but the Reaganauts balked at the outspoken and controversial Texan. Says one: "There are just too many problems with John, and he brings with him no political benefits...
...Darrell Petit, whose two-minute penalty at 6:35 of the first period is memorable because it contained three possible infractions, may be the dirtiest player in the ECAC. Incomprehensibly, Petit even complained to official Bill Quinn about the call...Crimson defenseman Alan Litchfield has become the team's hardest and most consistent checker. Litchfield played a solid game in every respect and is challenging Scott Sangster as the squad's best defensive defenseman. Brown, 3-2 at Cambridge Brown (2-4-1) 1 1 1-3 Harvard...
...Though it struck the major cities in its path, the quake concentrated with cruel efficiency on impoverished rural villages. In all, 179 communities suffered at least some damage, and 310,000 people were made homeless. General Antonio Tamburino, military commander of the relief forces in Avellino, one of the hardest-hit provinces, ventured that the dead might number 10,000 or more before the last of the debris was cleared...
...control of the fight that he turned the tables on Duran and became the taunter. He windmilled his left arm until Duran was mesmerized, then tagged him with his right-a classic sucker punch. Leonard dropped his arms and leaned forward to stick his face out, daring the hardest slugger in the game to hit him. Duran tried, but too many of his punches fell short. Said Leonard: "I saw him slowing down. I noticed his pace change. I looked in his face and I saw the change. The sneer was gone." Still, Ray Arcel, 81, Duran's cornerman...