Word: easiest
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...coal will be one of the saving alternatives to oil as an energy source, and the easiest way to meet the nation's rising coal needs is to strip-mine. But strip mining - ripping off a top layer of earth to get at the coal underground - has done so much damage in the past that it is a prime target for environmentalists...
Chop-Chop Cups. The conjurers had forgotten that their heroes were also afflicted with nostalgia, that Houdini himself had borrowed his name from an earlier performer, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, a 19th century French prestidigitator. Moreover, as the magicians should have known, scientists are the easiest to fool. They seek rational explanations for contrived phenomena, connections where none exist. Magicians were in fact doing what they had always persuaded their audiences to do: they were looking the wrong way. "We magicians are notorious for staring in the rear-view mirror," says Semipro Charles Reynolds, picture editor of Popular...
This process cannot succeed without a willingness to compromise. That is not the easiest requirement in an era that still hears echoes (fortunately diminishing) of "unconditional demands" and "nonnegotiable terms." Nor is a meeting of minds foreseeable in the bitter era of Watergate. Indeed, any kind of reconciliation or unified action will be impossible for a long time, unless Watergate ends with a sense of justice having been done...
...junta has gone beyond what Spinola last month envisioned for the three territories: a loose federation with Lisbon. Full independence is now regarded as inevitable. Talks have already begun in London with the representatives of insurgents in Guinea, smallest of the territories and the one that Portugal finds it easiest to set free...
...roads, schools and just about everything else a modern economy needs. Nearly 2 million people have violated restrictions against emigration to find jobs in other countries or to escape the mandatory four-year tour in the army-which usually included service in Africa. In the north, where it is easiest to slip over the border to Spain, whole villages look as if they had been visited by the bubonic plague, with almost all their able-bodied men working in the factories of France and West Germany...