Word: largest
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...point margin of victory Saturday night was Harvard's largest over the Tigers in 81 years (106 games). The Crimson defeated Princeton in the 1905-'06 season, 38-8. And that, actually, is pretty close to the second-half score this weekend: Harvard 44, Princeton...
...police standing at rigid attention. "What's happening?" asked one perplexed out-of-towner. "Any foreign dignitaries arriving?" That was hardly the cause for the show of force. Within hours, despite the police, the historic site was aswarm with protesting students, singing and chanting slogans. It was the largest illegal demonstration in the Chinese capital since the suppression of the Democracy Wall movement of 1978-79 -- and a stinging reminder that the student unrest born in early December had far from run its course...
Iranian leaders, including Rafsanjani, vehemently denied that the attack had been the beginning of the long-awaited offensive. Iran, boasted Rafsanjani, was still "counting down for the decisive final blow." On the other hand, some Western analysts contended that the wall of defenses around Basra, Iraq's second largest city, had prevented the Iranians from achieving even the limited objective of holding onto the four islands...
...black-led movement has grown up favoring an end to the long "stayaway." Reason: many parents fear the boycott is permanently ^ crippling any hope for their children to receive a decent education. Among the groups urging a return to classroom normality: the United Democratic Front, the country's largest antiapartheid organization. A U.D.F. spokesman declared last week that ending the boycott would "help the struggle for a democratic education system in the long term...
...week's end maritime workers and the government reached a provisional accord containing concessions for the strikers. The rail strike continued unabated, however, and France's largest labor group, the Confederation Generale du Travail, called for stoppages in public utilities and Paris bus and Metro service to support demands for higher wages and work-rule changes. The deepening confrontation came just weeks after Premier Jacques Chirac bowed to student protesters in December by withdrawing plans to reform France's universities...