Word: forefront
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...native of Belgium who has taught in The Netherlands for 22 years, Schillebeeckx (pronounced Skhill-uh-bakes) served as the Dutch hierarchy's top theological adviser during the Second Vatican Council. He is in the forefront of modern Christologists who are re-examining the doctrinal interpretation of Christ. The Vatican has had him under scrutiny at least since 1968. Schillebeeckx journeyed to Rome for the confrontation despite a flare-up of heart trouble...
Marcia Rimai, one of the participants on the losing side, said although winning would mean a lot to her, the competition was important because "it touches on issues at the forefront of current legal and political controversies...
...agitator. After independence in 1947, Narayan was heir apparent to Nehru as Prime Minister, but he abandoned national politics in 1954 to devote the next 20 years to sarvodaya, a movement that called for a new social order free of economic exploitation. Narayan returned to the political forefront in 1974, to lead the opposition to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and help form the Janata Front, which eventually defeated her in the 1977 elections...
Unfortunately, Cedric Vessell's letter (9/27/70) only serves to perpetuate this feeling of antagonism and to alienate a group that has been at the forefront of civil rights struggles in this country for many years. To tie the plight of Afro-American Studies to the gains which Jews have made at Harvard is highly counterproductive, diverting attention from the institutionalized racism which is the heart of the problem...
...close down, the nearly $1 billion in unfunded pension obligations that it would leave be hind could exhaust the private-pension rescue fund that the Government maintains. Before long, the combined pressures of inflation and the changing U.S. demographics will force the problem of supporting the retired into the forefront of the nation's social concerns...