Word: harshest
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...poll also found that on specific issues of welfare and immigration reform, there's not much support for the harshest measures. Fully 78% of those questioned thought the welfare system was in need of a fundamental shake-up, and 52% thought government should spend less on it. But 52% also said it would be unfair to end payments after two years to people who had no other sources of income -- 38% didn't mind the idea -- and majorities opposed denying welfare benefits to unwed teen mothers or to children whose fathers could not be identified. All of which are proposals...
...while Sony's disaster drew the harshest verdicts, other Japanese giants have been proving recently that their American investments have suffered from bad oversight, bad calls and bad timing. Last week Mitsubishi, which has an 80% stake in the Rockefeller Group, owner of New York's Rockefeller Center, threatened to default on its $1.3 billion mortgage, taken out five years ago when borrowing was easy. Matsushita, meanwhile, is locked in a struggle with the American executives who run MCA -- the film studio it bought for $6.1 billion in 1990 -- over the Americans' demand for more authority and investment capital. Last...
...subordinate to survival." Congressional Democrats now face a tricky calculation: how to relate to a weakened President in a way that will save their own skin. The question is especially acute in the Senate, where Democrats and moderate Republicans know that Clinton will call on them to block the harshest expressions of Gingrichism...
...passions of his audience. He has a talent for timing the rhythm of his harangues to the emotional heartbeats of those around him. How, then, would the man who may become Russia's next President tailor his message to America, a country that is a catch basin of his harshest invective...
...speech since Election Day, Gingrich warned that fundamental elements of his Contract with America were non-negotiable: stiffer criminal penalties, tax cuts, the balanced budget amendment, and a line item veto. But he said he'd cooperate with President Clinton -- provided he agreed with his policies. Gingrich reserved his harshest words for anti-poverty programs. "They ruined the poor," he said. "They created a culture of poverty and a culture of violence which is destructive of this civilization, and they have to be replaced thoroughly from the ground up."Once again, he went on the offensive against his charge that...