Word: sternest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...racquetmen face their sternest test of the season today when they meet Princeton in a match that will likely determine the Ivy League champion...
...Economy With unemployment high, the dollar low and the stock market in distress, the economy will be Carter's sternest trial and the main focus of his policies this year. The $25 billion tax cut that he will propose this month is designed to revive business confidence, spark more spending on plant and equipment and head off a slowdown in growth that many economists expect late in 1978. Meanwhile, inflation shows signs of moving up again, fueled partly by measures that Carter either initiated or supported, including higher farm price supports and a steeper minimum wage...
...Koch had a strategy. A self-proclaimed "liberal with sanity," he would adjust to the harsh new realities of life in the city by emphasizing management reform and by taking a tough line on fighting crime-including advocating capital punishment. He also became incumbent Mayor Abe Beame's sternest critic...
...Senate will pose some of the sternest tests for Carter. There his major projects are most in danger of sinking. In the House he can count on the support of Speaker Tip O'Neill. He has no such ally in the upper chamber. Not only is Byrd more aloof and elusive than O'Neill, but the Senate barons who control the important committees owe nothing to Carter, and in some cases are hostile. Where the President needs the most strength, he is the weakest. John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is 77 and too exhausted...
After arriving in Peru, Rosalynn met privately with President Francisco Morales Bermúdez for almost three hours. She gently attempted to persuade her new hosts to slow the pace of the military buildup that had alarmed the Ecuadorians. This week she faces her sternest test-a three-day visit to Brazil, where the military dictatorship was outraged first by her husband's opposition to its plans to buy nuclear-fuel facilities from West Germany, and then by a State Department report citing human rights violations in Brazil...