Word: foremost
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...Russia he's not seen as an icon of the new breed of businessman. For common Russians he's an icon of all the sins of the last ten years. That's to the extent that anyone in the hinterland is paying much attention to this. It's not foremost on their minds, even if it will almost certainly effect their future...
Rorabough said that Gienapp may have been the foremost Civil War expert of his generation...
...first 15 games, if an all-American can improve on his performance from a year ago, if a junior can replace two of the best centers the Crimson has seen in the last decade. If, if, if. Lots of hypotheticals, but lots of possibilities as well. The foremost among those possibilities—the chance to succeed where the last two Harvard hockey teams have not, in the crucial season-making-or-breaking games...
...private gallery owners with whom Ghia claims to have done business, according to Indian police, is Arnold Lieberman, one of America's foremost dealers in Asian antiquities. When contacted, Lieberman said he had never met Ghia. "I'm a known person [in the industry]," he said (and thus an easy target). Mother-daughter Manhattan dealers Doris and Nancy Wiener were also named by Ghia. Nancy Wiener said she knew nothing about the case or Ghia. According to an art-world source, Ghia's arrest sent shock waves through the business...
Christopher F. Noe, associate principal at Charles River Associates, a Cambridge-based economics consulting firm, says that “first and foremost,” he wants “someone that will be in there with [him] slugging it out.” Although economics is crucial to the work his firm does, this former Harvard Business School (HBS) professor would rather a hard worker with “the ability to think independently and think on your feet.” “I can teach you [the economics we need] in two days...