Word: worst
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Harlem is certainly not a harmless place for residents or itinerants, but neither is it the city's worst crime area. In any case, fear is no excuse for missing out on Harlem's cultural and historical bounty. Prudent visitors, black or white, can ride a tour bus or a subway uptown during the day, drive or call for a cab at night, stroll with a worthy purpose on a Sunday-go-to- meeting afternoon. They will feel as comfortable on Amateur Night, with its superefficient security staff, as they would at Carnegie Hall. They will be made as welcome...
...unpack. One day Koop returned to find tears rolling down her face, a critical newspaper article on her lap. He considered leaving, but Betty persuaded him to stay. The two had been through a lot -- long years of medical school, Koop's fractured vertebra and stomach surgery and, worst of all, the death of a son -- and they stuck it out. Finally, in November 1981, he was confirmed by a Republican-controlled Senate...
...implicate the venerable granite-walled banks of Switzerland in such schemes. Since then Swiss banks have been chastened by the disclosure that their accounts were used in a billion-dollar money-laundering operation. The resulting political scandal, in which the Justice Minister was forced to resign, ranks as the worst in modern Swiss history...
This in a city known for some of the country's worst air pollution, traffic jams that last most of the day and more than 400 gang-related murders last year; a city where 60% of the people polled said they thought the quality of life has become worse and where half of 12,000 people polled said they had considered moving away in the past year...
...worst comes to worst, I'll try out as a free agent," Hinz said. "I've dreamed about playing professionally, but it didn't become reality until the last few years. It's hard to imagine yourself as a professional football player. I realize now that it's not out of reach, and I'm going to take whatever comes...