Word: foremost
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Roth, who received his Ph.D. in insect physiology in 1946, is the specialist to whom biologists turn most frequently for information on cockroaches. "He's probably the foremost cockroach taxonomist. He has a world-renowned reputation. He's a very brilliant and helpful individual," Patterson says...
...moving on Ligachev, Gorbachev seemed to be strengthening his credentials as the evenhanded middleman in the argument over reform. Six months ago, he deposed the foremost proponent of a faster pace, Boris Yeltsin, one of his closest allies. After Yeltsin complained loudly at a meeting of the Central Committee that political changes were moving too sluggishly, Gorbachev had him removed from both the Politburo and his job as head of the Moscow party organization. Significantly, with glasnost under fire from conservatives, Yeltsin last week seemed to be resurfacing. In an interview in the German edition of Moscow News, a glasnost...
Yesterday, I was one of the "fortunate" ones who made it on the shuttle, but after the ride I wondered how fortunate I really was--first and foremost, I had risked my safety by riding on an extremely over-crowded vehicle, and, secondly, the crowded conditions on the shuttle were far more uncomfortable than the bad weather/walk outside. Due to dangerous, ineffective and uncomfortable service, I have decided that the shuttle is not a viable way to get to class...
With a third Broadway opening, High School Dropout August Wilson is the foremost dramatist of the U. S. black experience...
...Hong Kong it is known as the princely hong, or trading house, and its leader is the taipan, the big boss. Throughout most of its 156-year history, Jardine Matheson & Co. has been the foremost trader in the colony, and as readers of Novelist James Clavell know, it has been run not so much by a series of executives as by a dynasty of merchant-rulers. Now the succession has taken its strangest turn. Instead of drawing from the small Scottish knot of the founders' families, Jardine Matheson has announced that Brian Powers, 38, a former New York investment banker...