Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their production, are reduced to hoping that they can close the year with no more than a 20% drop in exports from 1976. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has fumed privately to friends that in letting the dollar fall Washington has shown itself to be bereft of "the slightest economic sense." Switzerland's Weltwoche magazine complains: "Using the dollar weapon, America is waging a real trade war, a war against its friends." If the slide continues, it could also spur OPEC, which receives the bulk of its revenues in dollars, to seek another price hike, if not at this...
Australia's voters obviously agreed. After his victory, Fraser expressed confidence about the future. "We still have substantial economic problems to overcome," the Prime Minister declared. "In the three years ahead of us I have not the slightest doubt that Australians working together will be able to overcome these particular problems." As for the top priorities in his second term, Fraser might be well advised to reprogram the government's dial-in telephone circuitry with a different sort of information. The result, which would be joyfully received by 357,000 out-of-work Australians, could be called dial...
Caldicott said companies in the nuclear power industry haven't "the slightest idea" of how to dispose of the highly carcinogenic nuclear wastes that United States reactors produce in large quantities each year...
...every expert agrees. Vehemently disputing that the portrait is by Stuart, Marvin Sadik, director of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, says, "There isn't the slightest possibility that it could be. I would put my hand in the fire to that...
...settles in a place, which he soon afterwards leaves to carry his changeable longings elsewhere." In the intervening years, Americans have lived up to their reputation as the most mobile people in the world, tearing up roots and moving-across the nation or across town-at the slightest prospect of a better life. The average American family changes its residence every five or six years, much more frequently than the average European household. Now, however, there are signs that the great national game of musical houses is slowing down. Since 1970, reports the Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans...