Word: foremost
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...replies Columbia University Law Professor Herbert Wechsler, one of the nation's foremost experts on federal-state relations. The San Antonio decision, he says, merely returns the high court to a position that it has held for 50 years. Wechsler argues that the 1976 decision was a "fluke" that the legal system is well rid of. "The Constitution gives Congress the power, without any qualifications, to regulate interstate commerce," the professor notes, "and this is interstate commerce" because the wages and hours of public employees, along with many other local government activities, affect the national economy...
...forget to use about us. What happened on the court was an unfortunate incident, but our team plays hard and plays to win. We have never embarrassed Harvard in any way before, but there comes a time when an athlete can't back down to his opponents. Respect is foremost in athletics, and must be protected at all times in order to be successful. I don't know whether Mr.Cunha has ever played a team sport before, but if he has, he will understand the concept I am explaining...
When PBS adapted three John Cheever stories for TV in 1979, Playwright A.R. Gurney Jr. (The Dining Room, Scenes from American Life) seemed ideally suited to write one of the scripts. Gurney has been for the stage what Cheever was for fiction: the foremost chronicler of the foibles and angst of the Wasp upper middle class. The adaptation succeeded. But it also pointed up a significant difference between Cheever's striving suburbia and Gurney's blue- blood Buffa- lo: while many of Cheever's bedeviled characters are avidly accumulating, almost all of Gurney's etiolated aristocrats are watching the family...
...support, divestiture only from South Africa for three reasons, two of which appear a bit shaky. First and foremost-and most compelling are the matter's moral dimensions. The issue seems (pardon the expression) black and white. Even a neoconservative can see that apartheid is bad and therefore, divestiture is good...
First and Foremost, the goal broke a 55 tie and stopped a run of five straight B.C, goals...