Word: heaviest
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...Eastern Europe, which suffered some of the heaviest fallout, the public paid close attention to the trial. Newspapers and television programs carried reports of the proceedings. The accident has even stirred up several nascent environmental movements. In Poland, for instance, an outlawed group called Freedom and Peace opposes construction of a nuclear power plant, the country's first, near Gdansk. Movement leaders have seen the future 400 miles across the Soviet border in Chernobyl, and they are convinced it will not work. The trial at Dom Kulturi is unlikely to reassure them...
...fast-moving developments as the nation's capital reacted to the heaviest loss of American lives since the bombing of U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon...
...heaviest anger seemed to be triggered by charges that fathers sexually abuse their children. A Michigan man said he had applied ointment to his two- year-old daughter, who had vaginitis, and was accused of sexual molestation during his custody battle. After an investigation the charges were dropped. The keynote address was delivered by a former foreign correspondent, Ernest Coates, who had been charged with aggravated sexual assault of his son and daughter but was acquitted. Introduced as someone who "sees his children only in his dreams," the Australian-born Coates claimed he was the victim of state-paid psychologists...
...latest crash was a harrowing reminder that too little has been done in the intervening years to reduce the danger of small planes straying into the path of big passenger carriers at the nation's increasingly crowded airports. The problem is particularly acute in Southern California, which has the heaviest air traffic of any area in the world...
...opposition is down, however, it is far from out. Thanks to its organization into cells, Solidarity can survive the arrest of many members. A meeting of underground leaders after Bujak's capture, for example, reportedly drew the heaviest attendance for such a gathering since martial law was imposed in December 1981. The measure was lifted in July...