Word: harshest
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...plummeted as much as 80%. ''Do you see any customers?'' asks retailer Adrian Tavera, standing amid towering piles of T shirts and slacks. ''I'll be gone by Christmas if this keeps up.'' Says currency-exchange clerk Margie Barrientos: ''The stealing is gone, but so are the shoppers.'' The harshest criticism comes from Juarez, where hundreds of protesters chanting ''We want to work!'' demonstrated on two bridges last month before they were dispersed by Mexican police. Business leaders have urged a boycott of U.S. stores, and cars are sporting bumper stickers reading if you want to be respected, stay away...
...mind in 2000 when he picked Dick Cheney, a seasoned Washington insider with a long foreign policy résumé (who also happened to be heading up Bush's vice-presidential-selection process). And Gore knew that in picking Lieberman, who had been one of Bill Clinton's harshest Democratic critics during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he was buying some distance from the incumbent Commander in Chief...
While Summers was more outspoken than Faust in calling for an increased role of the military on campus, saying that "degree of cleavage between the military and the academy is very detrimental for both," he also criticized "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the harshest of terms, calling it "offensive to human dignity and to principles of nondiscrimination...
...prosecution has called for the harshest possible punishment in the hope of getting through to Bardot the seriousness of her transgressions of French law. MRAP implored the judge to "take note of this refusal by (Bardot) to learn the lessons of previous convictions and cease using racist language". The court will make its decision by June, although the repeat convictions on similar charges suggest that Bardot has not exactly been chastened by previous court rulings...
Makiya speaks sternly of the mistakes made by the American administration—and by policy advisors such as himself—in de-Baathfication and the disbanding of the Iraqi army. But he saves his harshest criticism for his old friends, the Iraqi expats he had trusted to help unite the country. Instead of bringing the nation together, Ahmed Chalabi and other friends fell into sectarian politics and power struggles...