Word: strongest
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Karpov and his colleagues went to Geneva last week with instructions to reject in the strongest terms the propositions on which the President's START proposal is based. But the Reaganauts are not likely to abandon their proposal so quickly as the Carterites did in 1977 when their own deep-cuts plan was rudely thrown back in Cyrus Vance's face. This Administration is ready, if not eager, to engage in some serious, protracted stonewalling of its own at the disarmament talks in Geneva while it sells the American public on the need for massive rearmament...
...spent their credit on other issues." Smeal focuses on the "invisible lobby of business" that profits from sexual discrimination. She notes that no trade association, no businessman's alliance, no Chamber of Commerce and no National Association of Manufacturers was on the roll of ERA supporters. But her strongest condemnation is of the insurance industry. NOW claims that women unfairly pay more than men for health and disability insurance: women have shorter hospital stays than men do and fewer injuries...
Even so, Haig continued to win on most of the substantive issues. As late as a month ago, at the Versailles summit conference of the non-Communist world's seven strongest industrial powers that opened Reagan's ten-day trip through Europe, Haig appeared to be in complete control of U.S. foreign policy. That appearance could not have been more misleading. It is now clear that for Haig the European trip generally, and Versailles specifically, marked the beginning...
...major surprises. No verdict on President Reagan or his economic program. No national issues overwhelming local candidates. As far as political professionals were concerned, the primary elections last week could not have been better. Said Democratic National Chairman Charles Manatt: "We produced our strongest set of nominees, and so did the Republicans...
...plastered the city with posters pleading: "Hamburg, don't leave Helmut in the lurch." Well, it did. Schmidt's party slumped from its 1978 showing of 51.5% to 42.7% of the vote. For the first time ever, the opposition Christian Democratic Union emerged as Hamburg's strongest party, with 43.2% of the vote...