Word: hardest
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...buckling of the housing industry is not confined to any geographical area. Former housing boom towns like Houston and Atlanta are also suffering, and even Florida, which looked as if it might be spared for a while, is feeling the slump. The hardest-hit region is the Midwest. Laments St. Louis-area Builder Tom Berry: "Home sales are not bad. They have just stopped...
...collapsing market is hitting builders and construction firms hardest. Merrill Butler, president of the NAHB, estimated that nationwide unemployment in the industry could jump to 15% by October. St. Louis builders are predicting that local industry unemployment will rise to 80%; in some areas, like Chicago, more than 50% of all firms could go bankrupt. Says Michael Keston, president of a California-based construction company: "Builders have crawled into their shells like turtles...
HOUSTON ASTROS--Yeah, two pitchers on the team combined for 536 strikeouts last year, but Terry Puhl led the Astros in home runs with eight. Nolan Ryan is a good (not great: 16-14 with baseball's hardest-hitting team last year) pitcher, but Houston got almost-perfect pitching in '79 and still didn't win. What they lacked--and still lack--is hitting. Joe Morgan, their only off-season acquisition other than Ryan, is a valuable ballplayer, but his bat can't carry a team. Third...
...like its cousin the Department of Energy (DOE--the new department will simply be ED)--would have terrible growing pains. "The department will spend about two years thrashing around trying to figure out which end is up," a spokesman for the American Federation of Teachers, the group which lobbied hardest against the department's creation, predicted. Hufstedler dismisses such warnings and points to the difference between the DOE experience and her own. The issues surrounding energy, she says, are "set before a bewildering array of Congressional Committees within whom the Department of Energy had to deal. That...
...When you need endorsements the most they're the hardest to get. In politics, people are like sniffes-they move the way the tide is going...