Word: widest
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...Store rejected for $1.50. Get there fast—a book might sell for less from one day to another, depending on how many students try to get rid of their copy on that particular day. Maybe it’s time to pursue other markets—the widest profit margin FM found for “Principles of Economics” was the average selling price of $89 at Half.com, where the book has gone for as much as $195 (net profit $40.05). Just post a listing for your book, and then mail it to your buyer...
When future historians write of this presidential search, they will be obliged to note that the widest of consultations have taken place, that very few have felt excluded from the process. They will also note that with the notable exception of the press, there seems not to be an overwhelming interest in the process or the persons. To some, it could appear that the president nowadays is fundamentally irrelevant to the ongoing life and work of most people at Harvard, although the passions aroused by President Summers might suggest otherwise. There are others who have suggested that the Harvard presidency...
Kosovo, now a part of Serbia, may soon receive U.N. recognition as an independent state. How would Serbia react? Serbia offers the widest imaginable degree of autonomy to Kosovo within Serbia. International law is clearly on our side, and we are certain that Kosovo's independence would increase regional instability. It's time to leave the Balkan logic of fragmentation and move toward the European logic of integration...
...there is little Washington could do. The U.S. depends on Venezuela as its fourth largest foreign-crude supplier, which all but precludes swinging the trade embargo stick Washington has used against Castro for 45 years. Political isolation is a weak bet, too. In a region with the world's widest gap between rich and poor, Chavez's gospel of Latin American self-determination has spawned a resurgent left and unusually coordinated anti-Yanqui sentiment, evidenced by the region's rejection of President Bush's hemispheric free-trade proposal. Warns Luis Vicente Leon, head of the independent Caracas polling firm Datanalisis...
...first real effort at free-market capitalism, which the rest of the region adopted in the 1990s - looks tarnished today. One leftist President after another has taken the oath of office this year because Latin voters are fed up with the failure of capitalist reforms to narrow the widest divide between rich and poor of any region in the world. And the reason for that failure isn't due so much to capitalism itself - it's due to the fact that capitalism, or socialism for that matter, can't work fairly in any setting devoid of the kind of functioning...