Word: heaviest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PODHORETZ DROPS NAMES, and not always affectionately. He hates the politically nerveless and the overly cynical, but lands heaviest on the intellectual hypocrites, attacking, for example, Lillian Hellman, whose book Scoundrel Time defended Stalin and his crimes, while disgracefully comparing the plight of Eastern European dissidents to the bogus martyrdom of those who, under congressional questioning, evasively pleaded the fifth...
...record leaves no doubt that the North Vietnamese, also caught by surprise by the March coup, bear the heaviest responsibility for events in Cambodia. Their illegal and arrogant occupation of Cambodian territory had torn apart Sihanouk's neutralist country; they created the Khmer Rouge as a force against Sihanouk well before his overthrow. It was they, not we, who had decided on a fight to the finish on the bleeding body of a people that wanted only to be left alone...
Already, just about every employ with a pension plan is having to pay soaring retirement costs. At Atlantic Richfield, the eighth largest U.S. oil company, the pension payout jumped from $60 million in 1976 to $80 million last year. The pension burden has become heaviest in the older capital-intensive industries such as steel, rubber and farm equipment, often because tough unions have increasingly asked for fringe benefits instead of simple wage hikes. Among other firms carrying particularly weighty pension loads are Uniroyal, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel and the Budd Co. A great many other firms have not taken care...
John Galloway, subcommittee staff director, said Texaco's promise was "misleading" because it only covers the rest of this year--before the heaviest part of the heating season...
...weather service said, however, that it is still too early to determine where the heaviest rains will fall because the storm's precise movements are unpredictable...