Word: strongest
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...dollar has become the world's strongest currency because record federal budget deficits have combined with the Federal Reserve Board's tight money policies to drive up U.S. interest rates. The high rates have then served as a magnet for funds from investors ranging from Japanese manufacturers to Arab oil sheiks. This vast influx of foreign cash, which totals $40 billion so far this year, creates a growing demand for U.S. currency and pushes up its value. Last week U.S. interest rates seemed to be heading higher. The Government reported that July unemployment had tumbled to an annual...
...political liability to the President. And once he got to the right people in the White House, there was a great acceptance of that position." G.O.P. Senator James McClure of Idaho, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and National Resources and one of the Administration's strongest allies on Capitol Hill, also helped turn the Administration around. McClure, a New Right apostle who is up for re-election next year, said he was appalled at the impact that Idaho Democrats' criticism of the Administration's asset-management program had on voters during the 1982 campaign...
...Ukrainian, part of the "breadbasket" region which Stalin was Particularly eager to collectivize. Win populated by prosperous and traditionally more independent peasant farmers who confronted the Soviet leader with the strongest resistance to his plans to take over the area's farms. In retaliation, Stalin ordered all food removed by force from the Ukraine, and closed its borders so that no food could be carried in or Ukrainians allowed to leave. The result was massive starvation which led to cannibalism and open burial pits...
...McMullan left to execute a wholesale purge of the chain's newly acquired Philadelphia Inquirer. In three years, McMullan replaced a third of the paper's reporting staff, including virtually every department head. The overhaul was to turn the Inquirer into one of the strongest newspapers...
...movie feeding off an old myth, or a fresh myth being created to help a new movie; in any case, Bowie's musical excursions into sexual exotica, like John, I'm Only Dancing, have always seemed more like exercises in style than specific autobiography. His gay following was strongest, not surprisingly, in the Ziggy days, even though Bowie now claims that all the camp panoply was just "an image...