Word: hardest
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...businessman familiar with PVE invited the concern to bid for the monumental job of cleaning up Kuwait's oil fields. The final count of blown wells, not yet officially released, is 732 out of a total of 1,000. At least 248 well fires have been doused, but the hardest to cap, the high- pressure wells, have yet to be seriously tackled. In the meantime, giant lakes of oil have formed, covering an estimated 1 million Iraqi antipersonnel mines and contaminating about 1.2 billion cu. ft. of soil. As each day passes, the oil soaks deeper into the sand...
...inept subordinates go, but somehow occupants of the Oval Office seem unable to deliver the bad news. In 1958 Dwight Eisenhower endured the turmoil surrounding his chief aide, Sherman Adams, accused of taking favors from wealthy industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Then one day Ike decided he had to make "the hardest, most hurtful decision" he had ever made and fire Adams. Even then he could not do it face-to-face. He summoned Republican National Committee chairman Meade Alcorn and handed him "the dirtiest job I could give you." Alcorn delivered the word to Adams, his friend and fellow Dartmouth graduate...
...boundary between private association and the public right to free access has been one of the hardest to draw. Lawyers targeting the scouts rely in part on public-accommodation statutes, which were originally used to regulate restaurants, hotels and the like. In recent years the laws have been applied , to groups such as the Jaycees, which women argued -- successfully -- was not a private club but a career-enhancement group...
...inherited from Judaism. It is under assault because of the pressures of modern reality: the sexual precocity of young Americans, the large number of divorced or unmarried adults who have active sex lives, and the growing strength of the gay-rights movement. The issues are hitting hardest at the moderate and liberal "mainline" Protestant denominations that stress toleration and follow social currents. These groups, which have been steadily losing membership, could face further attrition, even outright schism, over...
...players who never win a title are somehow less great than those who do. In truth, brilliant individual players are not always brilliant team players, and that is why their teams do not always win championships. But in conquering the Lakers, Jordan did the very thing that is often hardest for a virtuoso talent: he used his genius to raise the talents of those around...