Word: weakest
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...vast country with a heritage of regionalism does not easily succumb to more powerful federal government. The western provinces, newly-rich in oil, have long resented eastern industrial eities like Toronto, which for a long time held an inordinate piece of the economic pie. The Maritime provinces, traditionally the weakest economically, fear that greater centralization could jeopardize their already tenuous position. And Levesque stands to gain the most personally from a country in disarray; he could then tell his constituency that Quebec would better be able to fend for itself by seceding...
...result of Government actions. One department chairman recalls that eight of ten people asked to write appraisals of one recent tenure candidate did not reply. What troubles professors and department heads is that the reluctance of faculty members to make appraisals now seems strongest in the cases of the weakest-and potentially most litigious-tenure candidates...
...prop up Chrysler, will Paris help salvage American Motors? Apparently so. Last week AMC and France's state-owned Régie Nationale des Usines Renault, Europe's fourth largest car company, unveiled a labyrinthine financial deal that amounts to a Big Money bailout of the weakest and smallest of the major U.S. automakers. The survival scheme, which the firms have been negotiating since July, would inject $500 million in cash into AMC. Also, the deal could wind up providing Renault, which already holds 5% of AMC's stock as a result of a 1979 financing plan...
...phone number, then his office number, called back on both and finally decided that the Senator was indeed phoning. Reagan said he had no objection to a three-way debate if Anderson was then a serious candidate. Reagan actually hopes that Carter will be nominated; he considers him the weakest possible opponent...
...worst since early 1975, when the nation's business plummeted 9.1%. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall predicted that unemployment could reach 8.5% early in 1981, much higher than the 7.2% peak that the Administration had originally forecast. Housing continued to be one of the economy's weakest sectors, as new home starts plunged 11% to an annual rate of a meager 920,000 units, the lowest since February 1975. Once again in May, wages and salaries failed to keep pace with inflation...