Word: maximal
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...favorite sermons. King would often quote a French philosopher's remark that "No man is great who does not bear within his character antitheses strongly marked." King provides the best example for that maxim...
...Harvard seems to be gambling that the same maxim will hold true again. It hopes the substantial gains women have made on campus will include similar complacency, allowing University Hall to pull out of RUS, the Clearinghouse and perhaps other commitments to women...
...candidates, of course, always try to find and define what matters, but the voters do not always pay heed: on the morning after, national trends are often difficult to discern in mid-term elections. There is a certain wisdom in House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local." Yet across the country this fall, the campaign cacophony of pointing with pride and viewing with alarm will largely focus on where the action has been the past two years: the state of the economy and the remarkable shift in domestic policy inaugurated by Reagan...
...health boom has undoubtedly helped to popularize the Italian national dish. Some nutritionists consider it a diet food. Despite the Italian maxim Quel che non ammazza ingrassa (What doesn't kill you fattens you), plain pasta contains no more calories than rice or potatoes. It has protein, phosphorus, calcium, niacin, thiamine, riboflavin, iron and potassium, but is low in sodium...
STUDENT AND TENANT activists may come and go, but Harvard always endures. University officials fully realize this maxim of Harvard politics, and use it to their advantage in devising "problem-solving" strategies. Those critics who attempt to force change on the University thus face the formidable task of achieving reform in a perilously short time span...