Word: worst
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...persuaded that the safety arguments [about UKA] are at worst neutral and probably are in favor of UKA overall. And other considerations are strongly in favor of it," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message...
Afraid of his answers, no one spoke at first. Then Simon Peter rushed in as if a door was slamming fast: "Sir, what's the worst temptation you've known...
...choice of General Mikhailov to lead a group of journalists on a tour of Russian-controlled parts of Chechnya is an intriguing one. In 1996 he was chief spokesman for the Federal Security Service at Pervomayskoye, site of one of Russia's worst humiliations in the 1994-96 Chechen war. A Chechen leader named Salman Raduyev had seized the village, taken hostages and for days beaten back attacks by elite Russian units. Mikhailov was responsible for explaining this mortifying defeat to Russians and to the world. His performance was roundly denounced as inflammatory and wildly inaccurate, and he was fired...
...democracy-minded. And since Castro blames the embargo for worsening Cuba's moribund economy--a cover for his own socialist blunders and human-rights abuses--why not take away his alibi? Even Cuba's leading dissident, Elizardo Sanchez, agrees. "After the fall of the Soviet Union," he says, "the worst strategy to take against a closed society like Cuba is to tighten its isolation...
...Yale's scoring woes in perspective, the second worst offensive team in the conference, Boston College, has 18 goals this season. At the Bulldogs' current pace, they will be lucky to score 18 goals all season...