Word: loudest
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Many council members love to wax eloquently about their lifelong "interest in public service," (euphemism for "lifelong interest in politics"). Leaving aside the question of whether those loudest in their auto-martyrology have ever set foot in Phillips Brooks House, some U.C. members do genuinely want to improve the quality of life here...
...saddens us that our office receives more racial unfairness complaints about the Crimson group than any other aspect of Harvard. It did not go unnoticed by the University administration, faculty and students that during a recent speech in sanders Theatre by controversial CUNY professor Leonard Jeffries, the loudest and most sustained applause from the more than 700 minority students present came when professor Jeffries questioned the integrity of The Crimson...
TAXES. Liberals' loudest complaint against Clinton is that he took office in a state that already had a regressive tax system (it weighed more heavily on the poor and middle class than on the wealthy) and has gone along with making it more regressive still. The Governor has not been able to reform significantly the state's income tax structure. He has failed to raise the severance tax on timber, coal, oil and natural gas. To raise revenue for his education and other reforms, Clinton has requested and won two increases in the sales tax, which raises...
...loudest crowd I've been in is at Minnesota at the Metrodome," said Ernie Harwell, who just ended his career as broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers. "They measure the sound as severe as a jet taking off. I don't know how many decibels that is, but they made a big deal of that...
...said the loudest stadiums he visits are Candlestick Park in San Francisco, when it's full, and Shea Stadium in New York, "where they get a boost from LaGuardia Airport...