Word: foremost
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USING THE LEVERAGE of U.S. investment "constructive engagement" aimed to shove South Africa towards real democracy. But the Reagan administration has been content to leave the "constructive" out of the "engagement." And in an U.S. administration committed first and foremost to stemming, communism in Africa, as elsewhere, and to protecting business interests, it is unlikely that the next four years will see any move toward a forceful, human rights policy toward South Africa...
...author of the Making of the President series, one of the foremost experts on U.S. politics, examines the surging forces that not only helped re-elect Ronald Reagan but mil play a major role in determining the outcome of the next campaign for America's highest office...
...Foremost among the couriers from the Spanish and Portuguese is Rabassa, 62, who has spent the past two decades bringing Latin American literature north to the U.S. The authors he has translated constitute a pantheon of Hispanic letters: Garcia Márquez (Colombia), Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), José Lezama Lima (Cuba), Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico), Vinicius de Moraes (Brazil...
While Rolla Tryon is the professor. Alice has not been content to play second fiddle. Aside from her pioneer work in fern-spore research, she has set precedents-initially by becoming the first woman member of New England's foremost association of botanists-the New England Botanists Club, then by becoming, in 1978, its first woman president...
...Globe's foremost problem is self-righteousness and lack of restraint. When the paper campaigned for handgun control and a bottle bill, it ran hundreds of "news" stories that openly argued its views. Globe-endorsed candidates seem to receive more sympathetic news treatment than their rivals. Janeway concedes that the paper has a "cacophony of columnists" and undervalues reporting. Cultural and life-style coverage has sagged. On local news, the Globe is too often scooped by its sole surviving Boston rival, the Herald (circ. 344,000), which has been revivified since it was bought in December 1982 by Australian...