Word: strongest
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...research hubs in St. Louis, Kansas City and Columbia, last year was instrumental in putting on the ballot a proposed constitutional amendment that would prevent the legislature from blocking stem-cell research. The move, which attracted a record $16 million from biotechnology advocates, ran up against one of the strongest state pro-life movements in the country. It should come as no surprise, then, that the fight has spilled over into what is shaping up to be a tight Senate race between Republican incumbent Jim Talent and Democratic state auditor Claire McCaskill, one of the contests that Democrats hope will...
...tales, but they are surely the noiriest in their artful oppressiveness, their connoisseurship of violence, their sense of the world as a rat trap with rancid cheese as the bait. The westerns Mann made with James Stewart - Bend of the River, The Naked Spur, The Far Country - constitute the strongest body of work, for that time, in that uniquely American form. El Cid is, to my mind, among the very finest of epic films, second only, perhaps, to Lawrence of Arabia...
Rusty Yates denies contributing to her mania and maintains the strongest belief that she is innocent, that insanity led her to kill. "Andrea is a victim here. She has lived in a different world for weeks and weeks, months and months," Rusty says. "She is waking up, and this is her life now. Think of the trauma she has been through. What a cruel thing to do. Where's the compassion...
...That sense of lukewarm support is strongest in places like Al Jidadeh, a short drive outside the city. The big crossing point in the commute between Beirut and Damascus is nearly always crowded. But for the past week, say Syrian relief workers, managing the checkpoint has been like trying to force a sea through a tiny spigot. The recent conflict may have created as many as 700,000 refugees; more than 200,000 of them have journeyed overland to Syria since the fighting began, that number surging over the past few days, as the risk of air and sea travel...
...even though both candidates have decided to talk mostly about other things-a metaphor, perhaps, for the nation's traumatic paralysis over the Mesopotamian disaster. Lieberman's diffidence is understandable. His unflinching support for the war isn't very popular with even his strongest supporters. But Lamont seems almost as reticent. A few days earlier, I'd watched the challenger chug through an entire speech to an Indian-American group without talking about Iraq. "I didn't even talk about the war!" he said with pseudo amazement when he began to take questions. The challenger obviously is out to prove...