Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these allegations could possibly be true. But Hillary would still bear much of a resemblence to Tricky Dick. To be a monster truly in Nixon's image, she would also have to bomb the hell out of Hanoi next Christmas, using large bombers instead of strategic fighters to insure maximum civillian casualties. She would have to expose an almost inhuman lack of compassion by attempting to justify the slaughter of unarmed, non-violent students by the National Guard, as Nixon did after the Kent State massacre...
...jailing six of the seven top Cali barons. However, Washington officials grumbled about Samper's hesitancy in pushing for harsher antitrafficking and money-laundering legislation, and they complained volubly this month when Jose Santacruz Londono, one of the top three Cali dons, managed a suspect's escape from a maximum-security prison...
Congress has also increased the maximum size of Pell Grants by $100 to $2,440, Shireman says...
...Americans manage to buy all this stuff during a quarter-century of declining purchasing power? And why are so many nonetheless feeling harried and insecure? "People bitch to their maximum ability," answers Stanley Lebergott, professor of economics at Wesleyan University. Many people too have forgotten how meanly, by today's standards, they or their parents once lived: no cable TV, no cellular phones, no microwave ovens, sometimes not even indoor parking. Only 58% of newly built houses had garages...
...season is the ultimate test of an athlete's conditioning and the out-of-shape player's worst nightmare. Each sport has a particularly tortuous regimen to push a player to his maximum and beyond...