Word: foremost
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Economic concerns dominated the campaigns at all levels, and by all accounts they were foremost in voters' minds, too Exit poll after exit poll showed Americans to have voted their pocketbooks, with mounting unemployment and still-high interest rates being particular worries...
...Budget. Foremost in this clutch of problems is the fiscal 1984 budget. "We held up the discussions until after Election Day," confessed a White House aide, "so that reporters could not write horror stories about what the President planned to cut." Appropriately, the President's first round of budget discussions was scheduled for Election Day. Many of Reagan's closest advisers privately hope that the President will decide on his own to raise taxes or cut increases in defense spending rather than swallow a 1984 deficit that could top $175 billion. It is not lost on them that...
...dark with his sketchbook and his Venus HB pencil at a thousand out-of-town tryouts, Al Hirschfeld has deftly cartooned the casts of Broadway-bound plays for the Sunday New York Times since 1925. And with his distinctive, fine-lined style, Hirschfeld continues to be the foremost practitioner of his trade, a long-lived original with nary a successor in sight. Turning 80 next June, he will be the subject of a number of planned retrospectives, including a major show next spring at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. Despite all his years on the aisle, Hirschfeld confesses...
This is the first time the NCAA has run a women's soccer tournament, and there are some changes from last year's AIAW tournament. First and foremost, the NCAA is paying traveling expenses for the learns...
DIED. Hans Selye, 75, Vienna-born endocrinologist and the world's foremost authority on stress; in Montreal. Experiments on rats led him to theories about stress, which he explored in 33 books (including Stress Without Distress, 1974). The body's physical response to stress-alarm, resistance and exhaustion-can cause disease and death, Selye demonstrated. He contended that modern humans are no more its victims than were cave dwellers and suggested that by learning to control stress "people could live past...