Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students agreed that in general Yale posed an insufficient challenge to the nation's premier institution of higher learning...
Strapped for cash and still reeling from accusations that some of its leaders may have engaged in financial irregularities, the N.A.A.C.P., the nation's premier civil rights organization, temporarily stopped paying most of its professional staff. The organization also announced a massive fund-raising drive to erase its $3.8 million deficit...
...been spent on research in food production or biotechnology. Vocal among them is Dennis Avery, director of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana. "The real question for today is whether American agriculture can fulfill its potential as one of America's premier growth industries in a world about to triple its demands on farming resources," he declares. "Few farmers have yet looked at the opportunity. They are still fixated on saving their crumbling subsidies in Washington." His answer: eliminating price supports and trade barriers and, above all, increasing the U.S. farm yield even...
...Lawrence native grew up in Concord and attended one of the nation's premier hockey prep schools, Belmont Hill. Success followed Coughlin there as well, for Belmont Hill won the prestigious prep school championship in his junior year and was one double-overtime goal away from another title in his senior year...
...Madison County is the paradigm for books of this sort. All Thin Untrue books must be handsomely bound, like something an immaculately groomed man would tote in the hand not clutching his leather attache. If these books were to be written in, and translated from, Albanian by Albania's premier husband-and-wife writer-translator team, so much the better...