Word: hardest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...invasion feels like the easy part. "While we can't be defeated militarily, we're not going to win this thing militarily alone," General John Abizaid told the Senate last week. "We have to get everything together: economics, politics, intelligence, you name it ... It's really one of the hardest things that this nation has ever undertaken in this part of the world or anywhere else...
...fought their way ashore, according to plan, and were soon followed by tanks, the mere sight of which swept most of the German resistance away. The fighting was harder at Sword Beach, where German defenders stiffened against the specter of the Allies' capturing the nearby city of Caen. The hardest fighting of all raged throughout the day on the fifth beach, Omaha. It was a relatively narrow strand of shoreline overshadowed by 100-ft. cliffs. Troops trying to land there found themselves in a horrifying position, vulnerable to machine-gun and mortar fire from above. The only route...
...Even the hardest working undergraduates don’t sit for as many Harvard exams as retired public school teacher Leslie Oliver...
...Bangalore rather than Boston, but their executives have learned that competitors have offshore strategies in the works and decided they will have to follow suit to remain competitive. Companies are still under pressure to cut costs in areas like information technology. So the tech sector will be hit hardest--181,000 jobs lost by 2005, or 66% more than earlier projected. Other professions are not immune. About 20,000 legal jobs are expected to move abroad by 2005, a 41% jump over the previous estimate. McCarthy says he does not believe that state and federal proposals to restrict outsourcing will...
...rebuild Iraq. He will either have to stick with his U.N. plan and hope the international community will support the new Iraqi government with a major peacekeeping effort, or support the premature withdrawal of American troops, if that is what Bush decides to do. Ultimately, and this is the hardest decision of all, he will have to decide whether to tell Charity Thompson something she doesn't want to hear...