Word: smallest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Asia's four rapidly developing "Little Dragons" -- along with South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong -- Singapore is the smallest and in some ways the most successful. The former British colony at the tip of the Malay Peninsula only achieved full independence in 1965, yet it boasts Asia's highest living standard after Japan, an average per capita income of $15,000 (about the same as the U.S.) and by far the world's highest per capita cache of foreign reserves...
...under which anyone who talks to representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization for any reason can be jailed for three years. But last week a motion by the Labor-led government to repeal that law cleared the first of three readings in the Knesset. Though the margin was the smallest possible, 37 to 36, final passage appears likely, since opponents made their maximum effort to defeat the repeal on the first round; the Likud Party even had five of its members hide in their cars until moments before the vote in an attempt to throw off government tallies. The government...
Still, it's a sign that the inadequacies of the non-ordered choice system affect even the smallest details of house life. Full randomization would solve the problem...
...familiar: health care costs and health insurance premiums climb at a dizzying rate; employers, on whom the system has depended for decades, take desperate measures under intense pressure; the numbers of people uninsured or underinsured rise steadily; government at all levels appears unable to take even the smallest steps to interrupt the spiral. There is no good news to provide balance...
ONLY A YEAR AGO, GENERAL MOTORS WASN'T THE only industrial crisis brewing in Detroit. Chrysler, the smallest of the Big Three, seemed to have everything going wrong. Finances? The company was losing $795 million for the year. Products? Chrysler's midsize cars were based on a 10-year-old platform plagued by rattles and defects. Leadership? The company's succession battles would have appalled Al Capone...