Word: premiere
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Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (SILS) is perhaps the nation's premier center for the study of labor relations. SILS Professor of American Labor History Clete E. Daniel says universities as a whole conduct their relationship with their employees on a hypocritical level...
Over the course of this past spring, a team of consultants from McKinsey & Co. conducted a study of the premier law institution--currently placed second in the annual graduate school rankings by U.S. News & World Report--which has yet to be completed...
...world stage and dominate their hemisphere in the same way Washington dominates its own. China's approach to international relations may seem crude, but it underpins the deep anger with which China has greeted the recent string of American embarrassments. Charges of campaign-financing corruption, Premier Zhu Rongji's rebuffed concessions to win WTO endorsement, NATO's assault on a sovereign Yugoslavia, the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which no Chinese citizen believes was accidental--all these add up to frightening confirmation that the U.S. is bent on "containing" China from achieving its rightful place in the world...
...People's Republic. If anything goes wrong, China's hard-won stability may be upset. Although the Chinese government has insisted on the political settlement of the Kosovo issue and opposed military intervention, it has provided Yugoslavia with only moral support. It did not postpone or cancel Premier Zhu Rongji's visit to the U.S. even though NATO had launched its air raids against Yugoslavia. This shows that, at least at this point, the Chinese government was trying its best to establish a stable, long-term and constructive relationship with the U.S. and other major Western powers...
...want to sit down for this: it turns out bullfighting is a sexist sport. Last week CRISTINA SANCHEZ, 27, the world's premier female matador, retired, saying she was no longer willing or able to battle the machismo of her male colleagues. A professional since 1996, Sanchez last year became the first woman to perform in Spain's hallowed Las Ventas ring, a triumphal appearance in which she proved she could sever a bull's ear with the best of them. Since then, however, Sanchez says her male counterparts have effectively blackballed her from choice venues. "The bullfighting world...