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Wilson, a native Californian and one of the country's foremost experts on crime and bureaucracy, said that at the end of the three years he will choose between...
...British were quick to point out, some sticking points remain. Foremost among them is the destiny of 2.5 million Hong Kong Chinese who carry Hong Kong-British passports. Britain has said that it will not grant them full citizenship, but they are unlikely to want to become Chinese citizens. Another problem is that even if the colony is allowed to retain its judicial system after 1997, it is unclear how or by whom judges will be appointed...
Wilson is one of the country's foremost experts on criminal justice, having written extensively on the subject in scholarly journals, popular magazines, and several books. Although he disawows the label, he is often referred to as a neoconservative by observers, who cite so-called hard-line positions on means of deterring crime...
...order to use it for an extra month. He spent a day in jail and was threated with deportation, but somehow worked his way out of it. While researching in Finland, he received media fame for participating in a music workshop given by John Cage, one of the foremost innovative contemporary composers...
...turning out the most goods with the least amount of labor and materials, and productivity figures are among the most important gauges of an economy's health. Beginning in the late 19th century, for example, the yearly rise in the productivity of England, then the world's foremost industrial nation, was just slightly less (1%) than that of its industrial rivals, chiefly the U.S. and Germany. But by the mid-20th century that seemingly small difference proved to be enough to tumble England from its previously undisputed industrial predominance...