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...purchased huge amounts of U.S. government bonds, the U.S. government is dependent upon that country for continued support. Japan has bought up Western banks and corporations, making its mark in the private sector. Even state governments are clamoring for the investment of what is now the world's foremost economic power. Japan does not simply control lands and stocks; it can wield its financial control to influence American policy...
Roth, who received his Ph.D. in insect physiology in 1946, is the specialist to whom biologists turn most frequently for information on cockroaches. "He's probably the foremost cockroach taxonomist. He has a world-renowned reputation. He's a very brilliant and helpful individual," Patterson says...
...moving on Ligachev, Gorbachev seemed to be strengthening his credentials as the evenhanded middleman in the argument over reform. Six months ago, he deposed the foremost proponent of a faster pace, Boris Yeltsin, one of his closest allies. After Yeltsin complained loudly at a meeting of the Central Committee that political changes were moving too sluggishly, Gorbachev had him removed from both the Politburo and his job as head of the Moscow party organization. Significantly, with glasnost under fire from conservatives, Yeltsin last week seemed to be resurfacing. In an interview in the German edition of Moscow News, a glasnost...
Yesterday, I was one of the "fortunate" ones who made it on the shuttle, but after the ride I wondered how fortunate I really was--first and foremost, I had risked my safety by riding on an extremely over-crowded vehicle, and, secondly, the crowded conditions on the shuttle were far more uncomfortable than the bad weather/walk outside. Due to dangerous, ineffective and uncomfortable service, I have decided that the shuttle is not a viable way to get to class...
With a third Broadway opening, High School Dropout August Wilson is the foremost dramatist of the U. S. black experience...