Word: heaviest
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...perennially destitute country, the punishment this time seemed inordinately cruel. As much as three-quarters of Bangladesh -- a country the size of Wisconsin crowded with 110 million people -- lay under water after it and neighboring India, Bhutan and Nepal were pelted by what may have been the heaviest monsoon rains in 70 years. An estimated 30 million Bangladeshis were left homeless. Many hundreds perished, though the full extent of the casualties will not be known until the waters of the Brahmaputra River recede enough for rescue teams to reach outlying villages...
...Rockne, though he went to Duquesne and Georgetown. Both the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox signed him. He boxed professionally. And he collected friends. On the court and in the courtroom, standard rules and common guidelines begin to describe legality and morality, but personal honor may be the heaviest measure of the account. Last week, the success was found on the obituary page...
...summit, the region's peace prospects had seemed anything but bright. Since the Arias plan was signed last August, its calls for regional cease-fires, democratic reforms and an end to foreign support for rebels have been virtually ignored. In Nicaragua, the contras last month launched the heaviest assault of the war. The Sandinistas, for their part, virtually ensured that the bloodshed would continue by refusing to talk directly to the contras and by flaunting plans for a military buildup. In El Salvador, meanwhile, leftist guerrillas pursued their struggle against the government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte, while right-wing...
Waldheim's defenders launched a vigorous campaign this month to clear his name finally. Their heaviest ammunition was a 299-page "white book" prepared on Waldheim's behalf by Foreign Ministry officials. Titled Kurt Waldheim's Wartime Years: A Documentation, the work asserts that all charges against him have been proved false. It repeats claims that Waldheim had no involvement in atrocities committed by German army units to which he was assigned between 1942 and 1944. The troops carried out brutal reprisals against Yugoslav resistance fighters and deported Greek Jews to Nazi death camps. The book further asserts that Waldheim...
...code, demographic changes have no doubt contributed to the savings drought. The baby-boom generation -- the 76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 -- is in its peak spending years right now. According to the so-called life-cycle theory of savings behavior, people tend to do their heaviest borrowing and spending from their mid-20s to mid-40s. Then, after their children are grown, they start saving for retirement. Many economists predict that when a huge number of baby boomers reach middle age in the 1990s, the level of U.S. saving will improve...