Word: forefront
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Inflation has raised the prices of most American cars above those of competing foreign models, and no U.S. automaker can match the gas-mileage claims of some of the imports: 38 m.p.g. for the Volkswagen Rabbit, 39 m.p.g. for the Japanese Honda Civic. Those cars are in the forefront of the import surge, along with Fiat, Datsun, Toyota and British Leyland's Marina. Says Honda's U.S. sales manager, Cliff Schmillen: "There seems to have been a change in people's thinking. It has sunk in that energy shortages and high gasoline prices will be with them...
...Lady with regard to public issues, I believe our First Ladies should be free to enter the political thicket whenever they think it appropriate. Some First Ladies have shunned nearly all public involvement; others have concentrated on noncontroversial causes; and a few, like Eleanor Roosevelt, have been in the forefront of the struggle for social and political change. There is no right or wrong answer; there is only the personal answer each First Lady gives...
...left Harvard after 36 years of trying to establish a drama department here, 36 years of frustrated efforts to win recognition for drama as a respectable field of study for ladies and gentlemen. As a director, producer, dramatist and playwright he struggled to bring Harvard into the forefront of the revitalized interest in theater which was developing during the first decades of this century. Baker left to found the Yale Drama School when Yale secured funds for the construction of a new theater and the endowment of a drama school, both projects which Harvard had refused to undertake. He left...
Most of the parties that were formed in the wake of the April revolution are still in the process of organization. Radical fringe groups, notably the Maoist Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat Party (M.R.P.P.), have been in the forefront of Lisbon street demonstrations, but they have not necessarily made the most impact. Sample polls last month showed the middle-of-the-road Popular Democratic Party and the conservative Center Social Democratic Party leading with 30% of the vote each; the Socialists were close behind with 25%. The leading political groups...
...civil rights advocates, the decision of the New York State Board of Regents came as a bitter surprise. Once in the forefront of the drive for school desegregation, the board announced recently that it will no longer consider the racial balance in enrollment to determine if a school is in compliance with state integration laws. Instead, the regents will henceforth require New York schools only to make a "serious effort" to desegregate. The decision, black Regent Kenneth Clark said bluntly, was "a tragic retreat...