Word: harshest
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...some, including Tello's mother, 24 years seems nothing like justice for the horrible crime, especially since Sheinbein could be out in as little as 14. Still, Israeli prosecutors point out that the sentence is one of the harshest ever given to a minor in that country (Sheinbein was 17 at the time of the murder). And it's likely that Sheinbein can never go home again: Maryland prosecutors say they will press a case against him if he ever returns...
...although he answered their questions, the governor reserved his harshest criticism for the media who covered his every move...
...hour "helper" to get him back on his feet and let me return to work. My dad was atrophying, physically and mentally, before my eyes. I put him in a rehabilitation facility. They did their best but were short staffed. His doctors wanted to put him on the harshest psychotropic drugs available. When several nurses warned me against the drugs, I fought for and got a milder drug regimen. But again, fearful that he'd get up and break a hip, they strapped him to his bed. He began to wither away, uninterested for the first time in food, because...
Just how long the populist movement can sustain its economic growth is a matter for debate. Sales have increased for three years running, with Kinkade's popularity the driving force. But Kinkade has yet to make a significant dent on the East Coast, and his harshest critics may be on Wall Street. While sales have held steady, Media Arts' stock price dropped more than 60% since the beginning of the year over concerns that interest may have peaked. Says Shawn Milne, an analyst at Hambrecht & Quist: "This thing came raging out of the gate, and they're not crushing numbers...
Scientific Learning's harshest critics charge that it hasn't done its homework. For example, many speech experts contend that reading difficulties arise from a failure of the brain to translate sounds into language, not from an inability to detect clear sounds, as Scientific Learning maintains. The company's own studies have "never been done with proper controls" to test its theories, argues psychologist Michael Studdert-Kennedy, chairman of Haskins Laboratories, a leading center for the study of speech and language at Yale University. Replies Paula Tallal, a neuroscientist at Rutgers University's Newark, N.J., campus and a co-founder...