"To help create the pre-eminent record company in the world".
Now, in the tradition of "Dispatches," with the publication of Dexter Filkins's stunning book, "The Forever War," it seems the journals of the brave correspondents assigned to the Middle East will take their place as the pre-eminent record of America's late-imperial adventures, the heart of these heartless exercises in disaster, maybe some consolation to those maimed and bereaved in them.
With its mix of huge funk bass patterns, brutal raps and soulful vocal hooks, the album became a multi-million selling phenomenon, reaching No 3 in the US and establishing Dr Dre as the hottest rapper and producer in America, and Death Row as gangsta rap's pre-eminent record label.
Today, Martin's Associated Independent Recording (AIR) remains one of the world's pre-eminent recording studios.
Mr. Robinson also helped run the eminent Motown Records as its longtime vice president; truly, the man's a one-stop Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
It gained from the corrosive impact on the image of The Times, the once pre-eminent paper of record, from being produced behind barbed wire at a Wapping plant besieged by pickets.
His eminent deeds were recorded in the documentary "Love of The Republic ".
Schnabel remains the eminent Beethoven interpreter on record; the longtime Times music critic Harold Schonberg proclaimed him "the man who invented Beethoven".
A Scully eight-track recorder was used to record instruments like the Eminent 310 (with an Electro-Harmonix Small Stone phaser on its string pads) and the Korg Minipops drum machine.
Both Michael and James were eminent Freemasons, though the records of both have apparently been expunged: "James Maybrick's Freemasonry has successfully been kept a secret for 130 years".
"The act of remembering is more akin to putting the pieces of a puzzle together than retrieving a video recording," said eminent psychologist Elizabeth F. Loftus, who gained fame when she conducted an experiment planting false memories of being a frightened child lost in a shopping mall.
