Word: harshest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clemency. But despite the fact that Pollard entered a guilty plea last summer and since then had been cooperating to some degree with the Government in fingering the Israeli officials with whom he had worked, U.S. District Court Judge Aubrey Robinson Jr. concluded that Pollard's crime merited the harshest punishment the court could impose...
Although the mercury rose slightly at week's end, weathermen predicted a new plunge in temperatures and warned that there was no relief in sight from the harshest winter in recent memory. One almost certain result: a hike in the cost of oil on both sides of the Atlantic as the sudden European demand drives up prices in world markets...
Whitworth's sentence (he was fined $410,000) apparently will be the harshest meted out to any member of the spy ring. John Walker's brother Arthur, a former Navy lieutenant commander, has been sentenced to three life terms (parole eligibility: ten years). John and his son Michael are to be sentenced soon. Under terms of a plea bargain that they struck in return for providing information, John is due to get life (parole eligibility: ten years), and Michael 25 years (parole eligibility: eight years and four months). The Government justified the severity of Whitworth's punishment by contending that...
Free enterprise has a way of sprouting in even the harshest ground. In Peru, a burgeoning "informal sector" has grown up alongside state-owned companies. Says Hernando De Soto, director of the Institute for Freedom and Democracy, a Lima research group: "The informal sector is laying the basis for capitalism." Workshops in Lima shantytowns produce shoes, bicycles, blankets and virtually anything else that can be sold by the tens of thousands of street vendors who throng the capital's pavements. The thriving alternate economy accounts for more than a third of Peru's annual production...
Hart aims his harshest criticism at the Navy, which he claims is building history's "most expensive naval museum," one designed to fight the last World War rather than any future one. The U.S., for example, has been funding aircraft carriers as the most effective way to project power. Hart dismisses the flattop as the ship that won the Battle of Midway (1942) and points out that the Soviet Union has been launching the capital ship of the next war--the submarine. The U.S. has 100 attack subs, the Soviets three times as many. American submarines are quieter, an important...