Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Four of the six U.S. Representatives stung by Abscam made similar appeals in his court and lost. Of the six, only one, Michael Myers of Philadelphia, has been expelled from the House. Two others resigned and three lost their seats in elections. Williams believes that his case is the strongest: tapes show that he refused a bribe from FBI agents and that a bureau informant coached him to "tell anything" to the sheik. Should his appeal fail, Williams will probably resign. Expulsion, as the Senator glumly admits, would mean an unwanted "note in the history books," though it would...
...real estate madness during the past few years was strongest in California. During 1977, prices of California houses jumped 20.1%, and then they rose another 19.1% in 1978. Like spiraling stock prices in the 1920s, few thought the rise would end. But now it is doing just that, and some people are scrambling...
...Faculty report released last spring recommended that departments, with especially small numbers of women instructors exert "a special effort" to attract "the largest possible number of the strongest women candidates...
...thumbnail analysis of the Reagan tax-cut plan is not too difficult. It is designed to appeal to the two groups who gave him their strongest support in the election past--simple folk, who have been told time and time again that government is robbing their money to give it to poor people; and calculating people, most of whom own large economic enterprises. The first group won't be helped much, for the only government officials climbing down from their backs will be the ones who sign social services checks; the second will be helped enormously, for, in the current...
...more senior officers to make him Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe. He was the ideal choice to lead contentious allies: few others could have withstood the oversized egos of a Churchill, a De Gaulle or a Patton. Ike merely smiled and confided his frustrations to paper. His strongest language was reserved for the head of the U.S. Navy, Admiral Ernest King. "One thing that might help win this war is to get someone to shoot King," he wrote. "He's the antithesis of cooperation, a deliberately rude person, which means he's a mental bully...