Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lost revenue than the U.S. would gain in increased savings, at least for the first couple of years. Yet it is equally clear that some sort of income tax cut is essential, no matter how much it costs at the start. The economy is now groaning under the heaviest peacetime tax burden in history, and a return to sustained growth seems impossible if the burden continues to mount...
...East Beirut and Muslim West Beirut. Last week artillery and rocket fire exploded all along the Green Line, which divides the two sectors, then spread throughout the city and north 13 miles to the port of Jounieh. Beirut airport was closed after intensive shelling damaged runways and installations. The heaviest fighting occurred between Syrian troops and Christian militiamen, but there were also incidents of Lebanese army units, commanded by Christian officers, opening fire on Syrian soldiers in defiance of their orders...
...Fowler insists that he merely teaches his charges to throw the "dry spitter," a sinker that behaves just like the genuine article. Whatever it is, the A's pitchers do not yield threatening clouts very often. When they do, the fleetest outfield in baseball (and one of the heaviest-hitting) goes to work. Leftfielder Rickey Henderson (.348, 19 runs scored and ten steals), Centerfielder Dwayne Murphy (.280, 20 RBIs) and Rightfielder Tony Armas (.353, 6 HRs, 20 RBIs) are so fast, says California Angels Special Scout Bill Rigney, that "they're almost like three extra infielders...
...whose career was overshadowed by that of his Hall of Fame brother "Dizzy," he compiled a lifetime record of 50-34 with an earned-run average of 3.75. Frankie Frisch, who was the Cardinals' second baseman and manager in 1934, once said that Daffy threw the "damndest, heaviest sinker you ever saw. When a batter hit one of those pitches, his hands stung as painfully in July as if he'd swung an icicle in December...
...thinking to the more pragmatic aspects of life. Though he still imbibes the greenies with regularity and enters races like Nantucket's Opera House Cup in his new sailboat also christened Savannah Jane), it is plain to see that marriage and a family--two of the heaviest anchors known to man--have caused even Jimmy Buffet to change his wild ways...