Word: foremost
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Among those who saluted the Prime Minister's triumph was Ronald Reagan. The West's foremost conservative expressed cautious hope that "our two governments can work effectively together to improve our relations, both bilaterally and within the alliance that assures our liberty and security." Papandreou told a postelection press conference in Athens that he had responded "warmly" to Reagan's words and that "it is not our intention to create unnecessary problems nor to worsen relations." But he also warned of problems that "cannot be wished away...
Ironically, the U.S. may have lost its standing as the world's prime outdoor neon user. That honor may now go to Japan, for elaborateness if not footage. Stern, the U.S.'s foremost neon historian and owner of Let There Be Neon, a Manhattan studio that designs for clients such as CBS and Sony, has seen international interest change even America's use of the form. Says he: "Times Square today is there for the Japanese chairman of the board who looks up from his limousine and feels that his product has arrived in the U.S. market...
...that moment, it becomes clear that Pravda is not merely lamenting the newspapers that are but pining for newspapers that might be. The play is not foremost a preachment, however, but a superb high-energy entertainment, with a cast of 33, lavishly detailed sets, throbbing music and an urgent, propulsive style set by Co-Author Hare, who directed. It recalls the morally assertive best of warmhearted Broadway satires like The Solid Gold Cadillac in every regard save one: Pravda does not and, given its bitter convictions, could not have a happy ending...
...added that her final decision will "depend first and foremost on my own negotiations with Harvard. I might come whether or not Bill gets a job in Cambridge...
...Harvard is first and foremost an educational institution the purpose of which is to inquire for truths. Nothing runs more counter to this ideal than supporting a country that operates on lies, on slavery and genocide," says Black Students Association Vice-President Anthony A. Ball...