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Word: foremost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weather's nice. And it does have a beach. And it's the foremost center of post-Niagra Falls schlock entertainment. There Falls schlock entertainment. There are about a zillion malls, movie theaters, race tracks, jai-alai frontons, bowling alleys, and combination mini-golf/go-cart/water-slide/batting cage/driving range/video arcade pleasure-mass-production-extravaganzas--plenty to keep one occupied for two weeks. And Grandma does have cable. And there are enough hot young high school-age granddaughters crisping themselves to perfection under the sultry Florida sun to keep you going back to the pool even though your feel the bridge of your...

Author: By Eric A. Morris, | Title: Where Old People Bake Their Brains | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...surrender its nationals to the other, and few observers expect Mexico to do so voluntarily. Most U.S. officials would be satisfied if Camarena's death were avenged by displays of rigorous prosecution on both sides of the border. Said U.S. Attorney Robert Bonner in Los Angeles: "Our first and foremost concern is that justice is done. If justice is done in Mexico, so be it." Unhappily, that is precisely what has not been done by Mexico for the past three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America Flames of Anger | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Admittedly, to be effective, a union must wield some amount of power. But I hope that the union organizers also realize that the union's first and foremost concern must be the employees...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Issues, not Power | 1/8/1988 | See Source »

Some significant social, if not climatic, improvements are, however, possible. Foremost among them would be the creation of a Harvard/Radcliffe student center...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Clubbed to Death | 1/6/1988 | See Source »

...TURNER'S COME AND GONE At the Yale Rep and on tour, a shimmering, mysterious depiction of rootless and religiously obsessed blacks in the early 20th century. The best work of August Wilson, the stage's foremost poet of the American black experience, who this year won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for Fences when it reached Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best of '87: Theater | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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