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The thought of the Incorrigible children at the zoo was still foremost in her mind, and she was determined to grab the Hixby’s Guide and rescue them as soon as possible.

There was further criticism in October after a law was enacted to ban demonstrations in front of Greece's foremost military monument, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, near parliament.

With his bald pate, dark-framed glasses and knowing demeanor, he has become one of the foremost chroniclers of the world’s media barons and Manhattan potentates.

He thinks first and foremost of the markets; when one kind of goods begins to go off slackly, he is ready with something new and appetizing.

Mr. Steele, 79, is one of America’s foremost black conservative thinkers, recently retired as a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution.