Word: heaviest
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...French remains the second language. They have stationed themselves in Beirut proper, maintaining highly visible patrols in vehicles and on foot through the city. Partly because of their high exposure, and also because they have undertaken extensive disposal of unexploded bombs from previous fighting, they have suffered the heaviest casualties. Operating from the ambassador's former residence, which was heavily damaged in last year's war, they live comfortably, enjoying three warm meals a day, with a choice of imported beer or Lebanese wine with dinner...
...received steady praise for its strategies of centralization and investing heavily in common stocks since the tenure of Treasurer George Putnam '49 began in 1973. With many universities searching for higher-yield investments after the inflationary years of the late '70s, Harvard has emerged as one of the heaviest and most diverse experimenters in the hunt for "modern" sources of funds...
...Panama Canal and vital Caribbean shipping lanes; the worldwide blow to the prestige of an America that could not stop the spread of a hostile force in what Reagan has called the nation's "front yard." Finally there is the threat that U.S. leaders rarely mention but that weighs heaviest on the minds of geopolitical analysts, namely, that successful Marxist revolutions in the small states of the isthmus could pull Mexico to the left, confronting the U.S. with a populous (75 million) enemy along a 2,000-mile, at present, undefended border. It is not only in Washington that this...
...extend imperial power. Meanwhile, though most of Hirohito's subjects regard him with fond bemusement, some are beginning to suggest privately that he should abdicate. But the Emperor remains steadfast. When questioned once about his long reign, His Imperial Majesty simply recited a proverb: "Not even under the heaviest snowfall will willow trees snap." -By Pico Iyer...
...close examination, however, the Soviet proposal amounts to little flexibility. The U.S. has been pressing for deep cuts in heavy land-based missiles. But the Soviet proposal would allow Moscow to keep all of its SS-18 and SS-19 monsters, the two heaviest classes of missiles that Washington fears most. Worse, the Soviets are still threatening to walk out of START unless the U.S. cancels the deployment of Pershing II and cruise intermediate-range missiles in Western Europe that is to begin in December, and to take military "countermeasures." British experts believe that this could mean the stationing...