Word: foremost
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...scholar, first and foremost,” Mrs. Huntington said. “He knew that…there would be controversy but felt obliged to do what he thought was right and what was true...
...conflict with the Palestinians back to the top of the priorities facing the Obama Administration. Israel's offensive in Gaza will provoke an upsurge in hostility on the streets toward the U.S. and Israel from Lebanon to Pakistan, making life difficult for those inclined to cooperate with Washington (foremost among them, the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas) while offering an opportunity to U.S. foes to improve their own standing in Arab and Muslim public opinion. President Obama will take office with the Israeli-Palestinian issue once again clearly functioning as a driver of regional instability, demanding action - and, perhaps...
...Blair, Barack Obama no doubt saw someone who was, first and foremost, not involved in the Bush intelligence scandals - namely extraordinary renditions, secret prisons, and torture. And while Blair's brief stint at the CIA during the Clinton Administration didn't turn him into a seasoned intelligence operative, he's at least seen the belly of the whale from the inside. (Read more about Obama's White House...
...questionnaire, which was given earlier this month with results released Wednesday, allowed students to rank various aspects of their dining experiences on a spectrum of relative importance. As past surveys have found, students’ foremost concerns remained related to food and hygiene, with 96 percent of respondents citing the taste of the food as very important, followed by its freshness (86 percent), and the cleanliness of plates and utensils (81 percent). However, only 42 percent of students called the sustainability of their food very or somewhat important, indicative of what Dining Services’ Executive Director Ted A. Mayer...
...more polished, sophisticated, and better-written production.Downey recently garnered attention for the spot-on political sketches that he wrote for SNL, particularly the Sarah Palin skits he wrote for Tina Fey. “When I do political stuff, I just want it to be first and foremost funny and, second, not idiotic so someone who knows politics would say, ‘Yeah, it’s funny and it actually makes sense,’” he says. Downey, who also wrote the well-received presidential debate sketches in 2000, says that acclaim for individual writers...