Word: strongest
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Harvard's divers, notably Jennifer Goldberg and Shannon Byrd, excelled against the strongest competion they have faced all year, finishing first and second in both diving events and scoring invaluable points for the team...
...educating nearly 8 million people, close to the total enrollment in America's four-year colleges and universities. According to Carnegie President Ernest Boyer, the corporate classroom has quietly become "a kind of third leg of the education system in the U.S." And it is one of the strongest forces for continuing adult education. Courses range from remedial English to nuclear engineering. Some subjects, such as language and accounting, overlap those in the nation's traditional schools. Others compensate for gaps in the conventional curriculum. General Electric's manager of management education, James Baughman, for one, says, "There is vast...
...improved showing was largely due to the fact that this was the first meet this season in which the squad has competed at full strength. Coach Frank Haggerty entered his runners in their strongest events, with most of them competing in more than...
...influence of liberation theology is strongest in Brazil, the world's largest and most populous (131 million) Roman Catholic country. Nonetheless, the debate over the propriety of that support continues to rage within the Brazilian hierarchy. Eugenio Cardinal de Araujo Sales, the conservative Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, charges that liberation theology "constitutes one of the gravest risks to the unity of the pastors and the faithful...
...bitter cold snap set record lows across much of the U.S. last week, but on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange torrid trading advanced market indicators toward new highs. On Monday the Dow Jones industrial average jumped 34.01 points, the eighth strongest gain ever. Next day nearly 175 million shares changed hands on the Big Board; it was the busiest activity since October and the fourth heaviest trading day of all time. Analysts attributed the brisk activity to a surge of optimism about the economy. Said Larry Wachtel, first vice president of Prudential-Bache Securities: "There...