The preeminent power does not have to patrol every boundary and project its strength everywhere. That is why Eisenhower prudently resisted direct intervention on the French side in Vietnam in 1954.

Bipin Desai is a U.C. Riverside theoretical physicist who also happens to be the preeminent organizer of rare wine tastings, and he said, I've got a tasting coming up where we're going to serve the '47 Cheval Blanc.

They, too, see the world through a prism that makes America continue to appear essential, but no longer preeminent. Recently, a high South Korean official listed in hierarchical order the countries that mattered most in the North Korean nuclear crisis.

Even preeminent researchers may underestimate the significance of their findings at the time they obtain them. When Salvador Luria, my university microbiology professor, received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, he made the point eloquently, sending a humorous cartoon to all who had congratulated him on the award.

HONG KONG The California summit between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping on June 7 8 comes at a time of heightened tension between the world s two preeminent powers. But divisive issues from computer hacking to America s pivot to Asia must not claim all of the attention.

By contrast, her German counterpart, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, often regarded as one of that generation s preeminent European champions, offered only lukewarm support for the Single European Act. He preferred to help steer Europe toward monetary and political union, just when its economy had begun to fall behind the rest of the world.

Both countries should press ahead with a bilateral investment treaty, which would enhance rules based market access and eventually foster greater trade liberalization. That would allow the US, the world s preeminent services economy, to seize the opportunity that is about to be provided by the emergence in China of a services led consumer society.

I turned to him at the end of the meal, and it's a question I asked several times, and he hadn't, kind of, answered me directly, but I said, Now look, you're in Spain, some of the greatest chefs in the world are Ferran Adria, the preeminent chef of the world today, not that far from you.

The crisis also revealed the extent of the massive over capacity in the US retail market, with estimates that at least one fifth of American shopping malls would be forced to close. The response to the crisis will be a hastening of the movement toward on line purchases, in which physical location is no longer a preeminent part of shopping decisions.

In the NIC s view, the multi faceted nature of US power suggests that even as China overtakes America economically perhaps as early as the 2020 s the US will most likely maintain global leadership alongside other great powers in 2030. The potential for an overstretched US facing increased demands, the NIC argues, is greater than the risk of the US being replaced as the world s preeminent political leader.

For example, the Institute for International Finance, a preeminent Washington, DC based lobbying group for large banks, consistently argues bail us out, or else face the consequences. But, just as important as their storyline is their political power, which has risen greatly in recent years to the point that all major policymakers in the US and Europe cater to banks fortunes even when there are no wider implications for the economy.