Word: weakest
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...developing nations of the Third World that capitalism today is weakest. Most new countries lack an entrepreneurial class, and they usually adopt some form of statism. Often, existing elites in tribes or clans prefer a centralized system that reinforces their own authority...
...level dose of antibiotic. As a result, the wall of the one-celled bug began eroding. That process poses a great danger to the bacterium, which has internal pressures ranging from 25 to 30 atmospheres. Strained by the internal pressure, the wall suddenly ruptured at its weakest point, and the bacterium exploded...
Rather than being unfair to underdogs, the primary system this year gave Kennedy an early chance to score against a stumbling incumbent President, and it gave Reagan's challengers an opening to upset him in areas of the country where he might have been weakest. Yet both Carter and Reagan won impressively in widely separated areas of the nation. Theorists may devise a better way to choose the party's presidential candidates-and many Americans hope they do-but no system would work any more successfully unless it could start with a different cast of characters...
...meters is Heiden's weakest event. Five days before the Olympics opened, he lost the first heat of the world sprint championships to U.S. Teammate Dan Immerfall, an upset that left Immerfall mildly dazzled and Heiden, oddly enough, relieved. "The defeat took some of the pressure off," said Heiden. "I could relax a little...
...both frequent and extreme enough the sclera does not return to its normal position and myopia develops. Second, the eye is least able to reduce strain near the point where the optic nerve enters the eye--Greene draws an analogy with the rivet holes in airplane wings, the weakest point of an airplane's body. This factor may explain why myopia is concentrated about the optic nerve...