Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after travelers and servicemen on leave returned home from the Pacific. Since then, Hong Kong cases have been confirmed in Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado and North Carolina. Hardest hit was Puer to Rico, with almost 55,000 cases in an epidemic that reached its peak in late October. The heaviest mortality rate was that of Riverview, Philadelphia's home for the indigent, where 266 inmates were stricken and nine died...
...days. Three other Merrill Lynch employees, including two more vice presidents, were just censured. The commission also ordered Merrill Lynch to close its New York institutional sales office for 21 days and its West Coast underwriting office for 15 days during December, one of the year's heaviest trading periods. The closings may cost the firm more than $500,000 in lost business...
...Shalit case was heard by nine of the ten justices of the Israeli Supreme Court -the most ever to join in on one decision. Israel's Attorney General argued for the Interior Minister, Shalit served as his own advocate. "Here I am, a little fellow, fighting against the heaviest odds," said Shalit before the case. "But if I win, a Jew will be a Jew by virtue of his own identification with the Jewish people, and not by virtue of Halakha alone...
Beyond the old-fashioned slugging, Nixon and Humphrey reserved their heaviest efforts for television. Both sides planned a crescendo of commercials and broadcast exposure for the candidates during the last two days before the vote. The expenditure of millions for radio and TV time up to the last possible moment was probably wise tactics. It was the kind of campaign in which many voters withheld a final decision until actually confronted with the ballot...
...causing inflation by mismanaging the economy. "Why are prices rising faster than they have in a generation?" he asks. "Why is the American dollar viewed with greater suspicion in the central banks of Europe than it has been for a century? Why is the American taxpayer groaning under the heaviest tax burden in history? Because for five years the Administration has refused to keep federal spending within federal means...