Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Astronomers at Harvard and elsewhere reacted to Huchra's research with approval and cautious acceptance. George B. Field, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the CFA, said it represents the "sharpest indication yet" of Hubble's Constant's true value...
...church to approve the use of artificial birth control, 63% believe it is all right for a couple to get a divorce even when children are involved, 53% think that priests should be allowed to marry, 50% even tolerate abortion on demand. Those stands put them in the sharpest opposition to John Paul II, a firmly conservative occupant of the Chair of St. Peter. One indication of his uncompromising views: the austere Pope Paul VI got 32,357 requests from priests to be released from their vows and granted all but 1,033 of them; the warmly human John Paul...
...Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 vote, ruled that the public has no constitutional right under the "public trial" guarantee of the Sixth Amendment to attend criminal trials. The ruling undercuts a fundamental assumption of open democracy. It is also by far the court's sharpest blow to the press in a long string of such adverse rulings. At its narrowest, the decision means that pre-trial hearings could be closed when the judge finds a defendant's rights may be prejudiced. At its worst, it means that during any criminal proceeding, whenever the defendant, prosecutor...
...census showed 530,000 unmarried male-female couples living together. Even then, the figure seemed unrealistically low, since many couples may have been too embarrassed to report such arrangements. Now the bureau lists 1.1 million "illicit" couples, with the sharpest rise occurring since 1977 in the under-25 category. Reasonably enough, the demographers attributed the trend to "an increasing desire among young adults to pursue nonfamilial interests...
Usually, it was expressed as concern about "losing Iran," or about the nation doing nothing when an American ambassador was shot down overseas, or about how the U.S. might-or might not-react if the Middle East oilfields were seized. The concern has found its sharpest focus in the argument over the SALT II treaty: whether it will leave the U.S. weaker, more vulnerable...