Word: ablest
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...also targeted by leftist guerrillas and rightist death squads. In a new report titled "Murder: The Ultimate Censorship," the Inter American Press Association notes, "Nowhere is this struggle between the forces of darkness and the forces of light more clearly drawn than in Colombia." Some of the country's ablest reporters have fled into exile or gone into hiding, their voices effectively silenced. Others admit their news judgment has been affected...
...felt that [Clark] had certain qualities that were very important for a dean--high intellectual standards and a strong commitment to building the ablest faculty possible," Bok said. "I think he's very interested in legal education and the reform of legal education, and I think he has a remarkably strong character...
HAMLET. Zeljko Ivanek, one of the nation's ablest young performers, scales the Everest of acting in a richly Freudian production at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater...
...Kremlin would like to improve relations with China as well as with the six member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Singapore, Brunei, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia). Moscow has appointed one of its ablest younger diplomats, Oleg Sokolov, as ambassador to Manila. Sokolov has been doing his best to fan opposition to the strategically crucial U.S. naval and air bases in the Philippines. But Soviet diplomacy will not fare well in Beijing and with ASEAN so long as the Kremlin's ally in the area, Viet Nam, is hunkered down in Kampuchea and intimidating other neighbors...
...with deputy or assistant positions and have seen their careers stagnate. Only a handful of Black faculty members from the 1970s remain here, since very few of them received tenure offers. As Dean Spence's 1984-85 Dean's report on tenure policy states, "Our ability to attract the ablest young scholars in all fields will depend on how credibly we can say that Harvard is an excellent place to begin an academic career." This statement particularly applies to top-level minorities, for whom a career in education often means rejecting more lucrative options in the job market...