Word: hardest
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...refers to the expansiveness, not the number, of the Henricksons' commitments. You can analyze their intramarital alliances or disagree with their way of life, but you are never invited to laugh at them or doubt their sincerity. Right, wrong or just weird, they're a family, trying their hardest. Big love, the series shows, is ultimately about quality, not quantity...
Talk like that makes some of the locals crazy. What they fear is that the city will come back as a Disneyfied version of itself, full of national-brand replicas of its homebred culture--a giant House of Blues. The city's delicate cultural ecosystems may be the thing hardest for government intervention to preserve. There are plans all the same, so far mostly unfunded, to help get artists and musicians back to work in a city where the arts were both a spiritual lifeblood and a significant source of revenue. Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, a New Orleans native...
...Hardest of all would be making military service compulsory. But former adf chief Admiral Chris Barrie believes that within 20 years Australia won't have enough young people to sustain an all-volunteer military. Conscription "is not a question of if," he says, "it's a question of when." He's found scant agreement among defense experts and none among politicians. But, says Ross Babbage, head of the defense think tank the Kokoda Foundation, "a problem is coming, and we can't afford to neglect...
...hands of crony capitalists and shady wheeler-dealers, who have a field day with the consequently distorted economy. There are any number of political activists who are unhappy over the use of sanctions, but they are reluctant to speak out. Lower-income people and social services are the hardest hit. I believe it is undeniable that the single, overarching obstacle to reconciliation and democratization in this country has been sanctions. Khin Zaw Win Bauktaw, Burma...
...HIRED ON WITH THIS OUTFIT." WHAT HAVE YOU FOUND OUT ABOUT THE STATE DEPARTMENT'S PUBLIC-DIPLOMACY OUTFIT? I really didn't know what to expect. The morning after the President announced my appointment, the Vice President saw me and said, "Karen, my condolences. You just took the hardest job in government...