Word: sorest
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...increased cooperation, things have not always gone smoothly. The sorest point has been the case of U.S. Commodities Broker Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland in 1983 with the largest delinquent tax bill in American . history: $48 million. In 1982 a federal judge in New York ordered a Swiss company owned by Rich to submit documents that would prove his tax delinquency. After the judge threatened to impose a $50,000-a-day fine on Rich's company, the fugitive agreed to supply the papers. But just as the documents were to be shipped to the U.S., they were impounded...
...Clemens, last year's Dwight Gooden, is the Cy Young winner and MVP of the American League. One season short of arbitration eligibility, he is the sorest of all the unhappy players automatically renewed by their clubs (in his case for $450,000, up $110,000). Two weeks ago Clemens stomped out. Over in the Mets' camp, this year's Gooden is trimmer and happier and thinks his dip last season from 24-4 to 17-6 may be traced in part to a mouthful of abscessed teeth. "Some games, I took a lot of pain pills." Missing his gold...
...Ezzard Charles' misfortune was to succeed Joe Louis, Holmes' sorest miscalculation came in following Muhammad Ali, who claimed to be bigger than boxing and was correct. Often graceless in public, Holmes has a gentler streak that comes out in private, for instance, when discussing Ali, whom he served as a sparring partner and studied as a man until Holmes' embarrassing skills & necessitated his firing. "I always sat myself in the back," he says, "and just watched. Today's fighters don't discipline, they don't dedicate. But worst of all, they don't sit themselves in the back...
...SOREST LOSER. Olympian Mary Decker falling down and not letting up on Zola Budd...
...sorest point of all is pay. Typically, a middle-level officer with about 15 years experience earns $35,000, a Foreign Service recruit $16,000, a career ambassador $50,000. According to the American Foreign Service Association (A.F.S.A.), the gentlemanly union that represents the interests of U.S. diplomats, this salary scale is about 10% lower than that of the Federal Civil Service. To be sure, like other American Government employees abroad, diplomats also receive a housing allowance, a cost-of-living provision and access at some posts to certain duty-free goods, such as liquor, cigarettes and gasoline. But high...