Word: toughest
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...recapture an audience that has grown rather jaded. "You cannot anymore launch shows that simply repeat yesterday's viewing patterns," says Stringer. "That's something we learned the hard way this year." Any other lessons will have to be learned quickly by Sagansky, the man about to fill the toughest job in network television...
...Aquino peremptorily summoned the country's Senators to Malacanang Palace and bluntly presented them with her declaration of a national state of emergency, the closest thing to martial law that the constitution allowed her to impose. At the People Power rally, Aquino, dressed in her trademark yellow, delivered her toughest speech to date, praising loyalists and accusing her political enemies of colluding with the mutineers. She specifically mentioned Vice President Salvador Laurel, opposition Senator Juan Ponce Enrile and her cousin Eduardo Cojuangco, a wealthy crony of Ferdinand Marcos who sneaked into the country a week before the uprising...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard will try to even its record Saturday when it meets Maine at 6 p.m. at Briggs Cage. Although the Crimson will have the home court advantage, the game promises to be a real battle against one of the toughest teams in New England...
...toughest part of the President's message concerned Central America. Bush told Gorbachev: If the Nicaraguan Sandinistas have told you they are not supplying weapons to El Salvador's rebels, they are misleading you. He warned the Soviet leader not to miscalculate how seriously Washington regarded the escalating violence in Latin America...
George Bush has often said he prefers "what works and what's real" to "airy" theorizing. Yet as he prepped for the toughest challenge in his diplomatic career, this weekend's meeting in Malta with Mikhail Gorbachev, there were tantalizing signs that the President was coming down with a case of "the vision thing." As he described his attitude toward the Saltwater Summit last week, "I'm thinking of it rather philosophically...