Word: foremost
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...broken here," said veteran nurse Hadi Abdel Karim as he paused for a cigarette break in a corner of the ER. "But we have no time and no money to spend on cleanliness." When I complained about the risk of secondary infections, Karim shrugged. "Infections?" he said. "First and foremost, the patients are at risk of dying from lack of the right medicines and equipment...
John is first and foremost a businessman, interested in preserving legitimacy as much as reputation. Shamrock is “Not an Escort Service,” the thin business cards echo. It is also one of the few booking agencies licensed and bonded by the state. Competitors point to it when asked about New England’s largest stripping businesses, and one customer, just before the strippers were set to arrive for the bachelor party that he had arranged, said he switched from another agency to Shamrock because it was more “established...
...uproar they can stir—a debate was borne, inciting some serious discussion about a controversial and complicated issue. Though we disagreed with Summers’ conflation of divestment with anti-Semitism, the silver-lining was that it ultimately encouraged educated discourse, one of the foremost goals of academia...
...economic history, and areas from Scandinavia to the Balkans. For students, the Center is a vibrant space where with casual ease we can come in contact with faculty members. At events such as the Center’s Friday lunches, undergraduates quite literally rub shoulders with some of the foremost scholars of, among other things, Paris in the 19th century, the history of intermarriage between royal families, or the intellectual dimensions of the Weimar Republic. Even when popular faculty members are on leave, they can often be spotted at the Center. For instance, Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson...
...Cablevision’s interest first and foremost was to protect its interest in Madison Square Garden as a sports and entertainment venue,” Krieger says. Cablevision owns a 60 percent controlling stake...