Word: foremost
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...Still, debates are all about verbal discourse, which happen to be both Biden's foremost strength and his foremost weakness. As a boy, he had a pronounced stutter, which took years of hard work to overcome. As a young superstar Senator - elected to the country's greatest debating forum at just 29 years old - he burnished his reputation with dramatic speeches about the struggles of working-class Americans. (Speeches that Palin herself alluded to earlier this week in an interview with CBS's Katie Couric, joking that she had heard them back when she was in grammar school...
...McCain) and many of the state's leading business interests, favor a dual approach combining enforcement and a path to citizenship. The rambunctious populist wing of the state GOP, led in part by state representative Russell Pearce from Mesa, favors a much tougher stance of deportations first and foremost...
...trying to keep the ship in the channel for months. Treasury Secretary Paulson, 62, was one of Wall Street's toughest dealmakers as CEO of Goldman Sachs. Fed chief Bernanke, 54, is a quiet academic who was the chairman of Princeton's economics department and is one of the foremost scholars of the Great Depression and other economic catastrophes. Least known of the three is Geithner, 47, whose years at Treasury in the 1990s and position at the Fed's pivotal New York City office make him the trio's eyes and ears on Wall Street. There is some speculation...
...years ago in the essay “Nature.” Fast-forward two centuries and the edgiest avant-garde cinema is just an application of the same principle—at least according to P. Adams Sitney, considered by many to be America’s foremost scholar of avant-garde cinema. Sitney was at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last Monday to deliver an illustrated lecture about the philosophy behind American avant-garde film. If anyone knows experimental film, it’s Sitney. At 16, he founded “Filmwise,” a journal...
...miles off its shore. Gutierrez asked the audience to make Cuba’s human right violations the center of its attention and linked the country’s longtime and ailing leader Fidel Castro with terrorist groups. “I believe that Fidel Castro is first and foremost anti-American,” Gutierrez said. Gutierrez connected the country’s current poverty with its leaders’ corruption. “The average Cuban makes $20 a month,” he said. “Part of the big problem with Cuba is that...