Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arab League still refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist; yet you imply that Prime Minister Begin is the foremost obstacle to peace in the Middle East...
...generous in praise, indeed, as he is in criticism, and he seems overall to be kind, without spite or envy. He appreciates good acting and treasures fine writing, in prose as well as dialogue. First and foremost, he loves the theater. He concludes a description of a delightful party by saying that there were few "civilians"-people from outside the theater...
...Foremost on the mind of many, however, is peace of mind. Said Honnet: "Quite frankly, I just want it to be over...
...Orioles were never a rich man's club, dependent like New York on the free-spending ways of some corporate owner to nab a couple of headline grabbers. They built from the ground up, extensively using their farm system. The Orioles had stars, but they were first and foremost a team. Weaver always had use for every one of his players, down to their lowliest substitute, producing one cohesive, interlocking unit, rather than a sprawling anarchy of 25 disparate individuals...
...foremost national education concern of the 1980s, much as equity was the premier issue of the 1960s and 1970s." The counterrevolution has actually been well under way for some time. In 1978 Harvard announced with great fanfare a controversial new core curriculum, and in 1980 Stanford inaugurated an elaborate system of seven tracks that would carry every student through the basics of Western civilization. "A miracle has happened among Stanford undergraduates," Charles Lyons, director of the Western-culture program, proudly told the faculty senate last spring. "They do talk about Plato at dinner and about Shakespeare on the lawns...