Word: proudest
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...even now, progress is uneven. Though Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are booming, rural Vietnam--where most of the country's 73 million people live--is largely destitute. Half of Vietnamese children suffer from chronic malnutrition. The country's remarkably high literacy levels-among communism's proudest accomplishments-have begun to decline, as teenagers race off to find jobs instead of staying in school. On a recent visit, Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a Hanoi favorite, complained that investment projects are "being held to ransom" by officials looking for payoffs. Harvard economist Dwight Perkins describes Vietnam...
...package got a bittersweet reception in Mexico. While Mexicans were thankful for the money, many expressed embarrassment at their country's continuing reliance on Washington. Particularly galling was the fact that Mexico pledged revenues from its oil wells, the country's proudest asset, as collateral for the loans. At a news conference last Tuesday, suspicious reporters badgered Finance Minister Guillermo Ortiz with questions about whether Mexico had made any other promises (he said...
...recent interviews, he said he was proudest of his work to plan major renovations on campus, including reconstruction of the Yard dorms and the makeover of Memorial Hall into a student center which will be completed next year...
After a period as clerk for then Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Breyer moved on to congressional staff work. It was his proudest achievement there to be architect of the plan by which Congress deregulated the airline industry in 1978. He has got more mixed grades for his work as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which established the federal guidelines that require judges in all parts of the country to hand down roughly equivalent sentences for comparable crimes. Many judges are furious over the guidelines, which they complain force them to issue sentences that do not take into...
...proudest of The Crimson when it points out the moral failings of the Harvard community and when it acts as a spur to the consciences of its readers. News judgment is similar to (but not identical to) a finely tuned sense of moral outrage. So it's been news over the last three years that Harvard didn't pay its clerical and technical workers enough for them to afford adequate child care...