Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Warming up about twenty minutes into his oration, Jackson employed his strongest rolling preacher's cadences to take swipes at so-called "Yuppies"--the young urban professionals known for limitless self indulgence...
...wake of these attacks--making 15 in the past four months--the President last week finally removed any doubt about how he viewed the abortion bombings. "I will do all in my power to assure that the guilty are brought to justice," he said. "I condemn, in the strongest terms, those individuals who perpetrate these and all such violent, anarchist activities." He ordered Attorney General William French Smith to make sure that federal agencies work cooperatively to investigate and prosecute the crimes...
...Keaton knows something about from her turns as Louise Bryant in Reds and the frazzled Mata Hari in The Little Drummer Girl. Keaton and Australian Director Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career) might seem to make a good protofeminist match, but the results are dour and disappointing. The film's strongest suit--Russell Boyd's sepulchrally seductive cinematography--ironicall y seals its doom. Mrs. Soffel (rhymes with woeful) is Bonnie and Clyde with the emotional lights turned down, Tristan und Isolde without the saving soaring music...
...When you step up on that starting block everyone's equal...it's a mental game in the water to see how tough you are, how mentally prepared you are to accept those challenges...The race doesn't go to the strongest team, the fastest team, but the one that's most intelligent," Bernal says...
...strongest-selling models are not 18-wheelers and big commercial carriers, but small trucks, vans and other vehicles that share some features with passenger cars. Many suburban housewives have fallen in love with minivans (estimated 1984 sales: 225,000), and thousands of yuppies are hooked on such off-the-road vehicles as the Chevrolet S-10 Blazer (sales so far this year: 130,727), the American Motors Jeep (79,807) and the Ford Bronco II (91,651). The fastest-moving truck of all is the small pickup. The nine different models of the compact carrier will have combined sales...