Word: strongest
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Despite fears voiced by Bok and other private university officials that the new agency will increase federal intervention in campus policies, the bill contains the strongest prohibition against federal intervention in history...
...Patriotic Front leaders may also have little to gain from participation in election. If the Front agreed to a ceasefire, it would throw away its strongest card. President Julius Nyere of Tanzania reportedly believes that Nkomo and Mugabe would sweep free elections in an independent Zimbabwe; other observers are not so sure. It is possible that the long-standing military and political rivalry between ZAPU and ZANU, the two wings of the Front, might create confusion if Nkomo and Mugabe were to run together. Tribal rivalries would also play a role, since Nkomo is a Karanga and Mugabe a Zezeru...
Spawned in the warm waters off the west coast of Africa, David was a Cape Verde hurricane, the most lethal of late summer storms and one of the strongest of this century. In its 3,000-mile trek across the Atlantic, it grew in size and intensity until it measured some 300 miles across, with an eye 30 miles wide. It entered the Caribbean almost surreptitiously, barely touching the island of Barbados...
Forecasters said the storm was approaching a four on the National Hurricane Center's 1-5 rating scale. Camille, which hit the Gulf coast 10 years ago and was one of the two strongest storms this century, was ranked five...
...Kennedy would take it in a walk," Weicker said as he flew to Hartford, Conn. aboard Air Force One as the President's guest. "There's too many Democratic congressmen and senators with their necks on the line. They want the strongest possible person at the top of the ticket," he added...