Word: foremost
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...choice ... The primary task a presidential candidate faces today is not building a coalition of organized interests or developing alliances with other candidates or politicians in his party, or even winning over the voters whose hands he shakes. If he has his modern priorities straight, he is first and foremost a seeker after favorable notice from the journalists who can make or break his progress...
...Atlantic has not lost its calm, its intelligent voice or its reputation for literary excellence. Except for The New Yorker, it remains the foremost showcase for serious fiction and poetry in the U.S. Among recent contributors: John Earth, Bernard Malamud, John Updike, Joyce Carol Gates and John Gardner. The March issue features an essay by Archibald MacLeish, a memoir by Isaac Bashevis Singer and a poem by Robert Perm Warren...
...urgency about a Ford decision? Foremost is the possibility of a party rush toward Reagan in the glow of his New Hampshire victory. While Ford has talked in the past of waiting for a potential deadlock at the nominating convention, many of the party's pros consider that most unlikely. They also note that the filing deadlines for remaining key primary elections are either past or imminent. Nevertheless, if Ford were to start filing this week in all primaries still open, he would have a chance to win 729, or 36%, of the 1,994 national convention delegates...
...examination of Anderson's record reveals a conservative with a conscience, but a conservative first and foremost. The Jeffersonian creed that "government that governs best governs least" remains the operative phrase in Anderson's political vision. Just put the money into the pockets of consumers and hence into the market system and the benefits will filter down to those in need. It is a traditional doctrine, Adam Smith filtered through 200 years, but what was liberal in 1776 is liberal no more...
...losers, it was worse than their blackest fears. Trooping to their caucuses in record numbers last week, the voters of Iowa produced stunning surprises that upset the carefully drawn plans for the 1980 presidential race in both parties. Left reeling in defeat were two of the nation's foremost political figures, Ted Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Kennedy was trounced 2 to 1 by Jimmy Carter, and immediately found himself so strapped for funds that he had to stop paying his campaign workers. The Senator, who had been the most glamorous politician in the U.S. and who had seemed invincible...