Word: harshest
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Duehay and Russell both say that the city officials have been devising measures to combat the harshest effects of Question...
...harshest of these attacks are true, SoftRAM 95 isn't just one more computer product that fails to live up to its hype; it's a hollow piece of Potemkin programming, devoid of the advanced, patent-pending compression technology touted in its packaging. In short, says Mark Russinovich, a University of Oregon computer scientist, "the thing is a fraud...
...cleverly lining up the support of the nation's G.O.P. Governors and the U.S. Conference of Bishops, Dole was able to save several nutrition programs as federal entitlements and modify three of the harshest provisions of the House's welfare-reform bill. His changes: Dole managed to ensure that the states would have to maintain a hefty chunk of their own welfare spending as a precondition for the receipt of federal funds; by leaving it to the states to decide, he blunted the House's insistence that cash assistance be denied to welfare moms under 18; and the "state option...
...basic numbers and short essays. We take the products of this distillation and present the entire package to one committee or another--a fellowships selection committee, a law or medical school admissions committee, a hiring committee at some high-powered firm. We make ourselves vulnerable to the harshest rejection...
...buried. The end game began in the Senate on Saturday, and the debate is already furious. Some of the proposed bill's prescriptions, such as requiring teen mothers on welfare to live at home or attend school, are long overdue. And Bob Dole has cleverly worked to smooth the harshest provisions of the House legislation. The drive to cut funds to moms who have more kids while on welfare, for example, would be left for the states as an option rather than mandated by Washington. That's the good news. The rest ranges from moderately bad to callous and counterproductive...