Word: foremost
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...stunning exhibition that opened last week at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, "The Architecture of Richard Neutra: From International Style to California Modern," he did succeed in creating designs that combine delightful livability with uncompromising modernity. Neutra, in fact, was one of the foremost leaders of the 20th century architectural revolution...
...Western Europe, the slump has swelled the ranks of the unemployed to a post-World War II record of 22 million, or almost one out of every ten workers. Even in West Germany, one of the foremost economic powerhouses of the postwar era, joblessness has nearly doubled since 1979, to 6.8%, and the pace of business bankruptcies has increased more than 100%. Says Karl Otto Pöhl, president of the West German Bundesbank: "Resignation and pessimism are more widespread than at any time since...
Canada's difficulties stem partly from living next door to the U.S. In his address to Parliament, MacEachen singled out the prolonged U.S. recession and high interest rates (the prime last week: 16.5%) as "the foremost international obstacles" to Canada's economic recovery." The impact of U.S. policy on Canada is indisputable, but many businessmen on both sides of the border also think that Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau's "Canadianization" program deserves some of the blame. Measures to increase Canadian ownership of the U.S.-dominated oil and gas industries to 50% by 1990 and to ensure...
Indeed, Hollywood may be bent on disclosing more than anybody could possibly absorb about the stars-or, for that matter, care to know. Gary Grant, Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and (in separate covers) Elizabeth Taylor are merely the foremost subjects of the latest crop of biographies, autobiographies and memoirs. Dozens of these volumes have been gushing off the presses, and sometimes the trend seems to be toward not just revelation but multiple exposure: Joan Crawford and Errol Flynn have been dealt with in a couple of books each, and three biographies of Gary Cooper issued forth almost simultaneously...
Birch, one of the nation's foremost geo-physicists, yesterday abided by the long standing Harvard tradition of keeping the names of honorary-degree recipients a secret until the moment they are called to receive their diplomas...