Word: forefront
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...three laws met with praise from both council members and community members, many of whom said that the legislation would move Cambridge to the forefront of American cities in local environmental regulation...
...think Cambridge has done a good job of being patriotic," said Vellucci's State House colleague, Rep. Alvin E. Thompson (D-Cambridge). "I think we're in the forefront. Everything that has got to be done is being done here...
...support for a giant accelerator goes deeper than a desire for federal dollars. To many scientists and politicians, national pride is at stake. Proponents insist that the SSC is necessary to keep the U.S. in the forefront of particle-physics research. Americans dominated the field from the mid-1940s to the 1970s, but Europe's CERN started stealing much of the glory in the 1980s. Without the SSC, its proponents contend, many of the best American physicists will emigrate to Europe. In fact, the brain drain has already begun: last year, for the first time, the number of American experimenters...
...want to remain at the forefront of technology and medicine breakthroughs, then we can not pull back on our commitment to higher education," Varela told the crowd...
Modern sociological investigations are at the forefront of our efforts to understand what is going on, and to suggest policy options in our attempts to do something about it. It is therefore nothing less than tragic that some of the nation's brightest students are being misled, at its foremost institution of learning, into thinking that they are engaged in studies with a view to understanding their social world, when all they are learning is an outmoded "Channel 2" sociology that has brought that version of the discipline to ruin and disgrace in its British homeland...