Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christmas, the government announced that retail sales were down 0.2 percent in October, the first decline in three months. The decline was buffeted somewhat by a sharp rebound in new car sales as automakers rolled out their 1996 models. Excluding autos, sales were down 0.5 percent last month. Hardest hit: department and clothing stores, a troubling sign of a potentially sluggish holiday season for retailers...
...owes $1.4 billion in back payments to the U.N., 40 percent of its total bill, and is the largest debtor to the U.N. refusing to pay. As a result, the U.N. may have to default on its $1.2 billion debt to 80 countries. Ironically, the hardest hit will probably be American contractors who have done most of the U.N.'s work and who will have to absorb the default...
Maddux is not the hardest thrower in baseball, but he does have five pitches and total command of the strike zone. And as good as Maddux has become--he is about to win an unprecedented fourth straight Cy Young Award--he remains terribly unimpressed with himself. ''I just pitch," he says. The closest he'll come to a boast is this opinion expressed before the Series: "I like to think good pitching beats good hitting...
...switch will also decrease the workload for Chem 17, which has long been regarded as one of the hardest science courses at Harvard. Last year, Chem 17 received a CUE Guide difficulty rating of 4.8 and a workload rating...
...HUMAN CONDITIONS--love, rage, fear, madness and the rest of the ragbag--the hardest for an actor or a writer of fiction to counterfeit is genius. Merely reminding us won't work, because we haven't been there. Is genius simply a powerful flow of really good ideas? Doesn't help; we don't know where even moderately good ideas come from. Robert Harris, whose chilling novel Fatherland imagined what Europe might have been like had World War II stalled out in an English defeat and a U.S. withdrawal, makes a brave try at construing genius, the light bulb over...