Word: harshest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference's old hands, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, as expected, was Reagan's harshest critic, lecturing the U.S. President about his "overreliance" on monetary policy to check inflation. Schmidt openly charged that Reagan's advocacy of stiff trade restrictions with the Soviet Union conflicted with the U.S. decision to lift its embargo on grain sales to Moscow. Still, Schmidt had worked carefully with Trudeau before the conference began to seek "a middle ground" in which...
...time came, she raised her hand so tentatively that for a moment there was some doubt in the chamber as to how she was going to vote. But Jeane Kirkpatrick, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, did indeed vote yes last week, thereby joining in one of the harshest United Nations rebukes of Israel that the U.S. had ever supported...
Watt will be a strong adversary, and even his harshest detractors consider him incorruptible. But if he is to have a chance of succeeding, Watt must build wider coalitions, reach out beyond his own supporters. His intensity is both his strength and his vulnerability. He feels he has plenty of backing. "I know the power flow," he says cockily of the Republican margin in the Senate. But what if in the process of carrying out his part of the new mandate, he misjudges the flow and gets too far out in front of Ronald Reagan? In that case Watt himself...
...words echoed the harshest rhetoric at the height of the cold war. With a sharp edge to his normally amiable tone, President Ronald Reagan said at his press conference that he knew "of no leader of the Soviet Union since the revolution" who did not pursue the goal of "world revolution ... The only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat...
...harshest attack yet on the new unions, and implied a dangerous drift toward lawlessness that needed rectifying. Significantly, the TASS report was broadcast by Radio Moscow, but did not appear in Soviet newspapers, suggesting it was intended for Poland and the West rather than domestic consumption...