Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this self-described wimp done it? Not with mirrors, although one of Holtz's secondary skills is the ability to perform parlor magic tricks. First and foremost, he is a disciplinarian in the Vince Lombardi mold. In his first team meeting in 1985, he looked around and saw players slouching in their seats. He ordered them in no uncertain terms to sit at attention from that point on. Says senior defensive tackle Jeff Alm, who is almost 1 ft. taller and 120 lbs. heavier than Holtz: "He's not the biggest guy in the world, but he seems to possess...
Even as Bush dismissed the abortion rights debate as unimportant, Virginians were proving him wrong. A CBS news exit poll found that one-third of the Virginia voters considered abortion rights the foremost issue of the campaign. They proved it by electing as governor Democrat L. Douglas Wilder, a pro- choice advocate. They proved it by electing as lieutenant-governor the underdog Donald S. Beyer, Jr., an automobile salesman who ran on a pro-choice platform...
Filmmaker Phil Solomon, a Boston area independent director, will present his 1979-80 work The Passage of the Bride at the Carpenter Center tonight at 7:30 p.m. Considered to be one of the foremost avant-garde documentary filmmakers, Solomon will speak on his creative vision after the six-minute screening...
Galvanized by the fear that they may be next, Southern Californians are urgently reassessing their plans for coping with the Big One. "What was foremost in many people's minds," says filmmaker Gina Blumenfeld, "was the fact that the San Francisco quake could have just as easily happened here." Residents stocked their homes with bottled water, canned food, batteries and first-aid supplies, snapped up wrenches to turn off the gas and prepacked earthquake kits that sell for $30 to $210. Some of the preparations had an only-in-Hollywood quality. One woman whose emergency gear includes a butane curling...
...system work if it really wanted to make the effort and spend the money. The need for improvements grows more clear with each attack on a student. Harvard's failure to address the problem indicates the low priority the University gives to what should be one of its foremost concerns: the safety of its students...