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Today none of the 10 largest tech firms are; Boston's primacy has been snatched away by Silicon Valley.

But over the last year, its hometown primacy has been gently challenged by the Huntington Theater, the homey 19-year-old repertory company housed in a theater owned by Boston University.

The familiar grade school mnemonic is a "supreme, and for many people solitary, spelling rule," linguist Edward Carney wrote in "A survey of English spelling". Its primacy has been acknowledged in English grammar textbooks from 1866 (James Stuart Laurie's "Manual of English Spelling,") until the present day (Bryan Garner's "Modern English Usage").

For the Congress Party leaders who have dominated Indian politics for most of this century -- from the independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi to Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister; on to Indira Gandhi, Mr. Nehru's daughter; and Rajiv Gandhi, his grandson, all Hindus -- the concept of Hindu primacy has been anathema.

Since the mid-1980s, shareholder primacy has been hunting businesses, harming society and threatening the survival of capitalism itself.

As he put it in a speech exploring company ownership last year: "For the first time in history, shareholder primacy had been hardwired into companies' statutory purposes".

Thirteen years later, writing in his own defence to Thomas Cromwell, More would bitingly observe that his early doubts about the divine institution of papal primacy had been put at rest by the king himself (SL: p.212).

At the same time, the argument that national security can at times take primacy over privacy has been upheld in the past by American courts.

But it\u2019s lucky for Solomonov that Miznon\u2014the first U.S. outpost of a small, beloved international chain started by the Israeli celebrity chef Eyal Shani, which opened a few months ago, also in Chelsea Market\u2014doesn\u2019t offer hummus, because when it comes to pita primacy Dizengoff has been knocked off the podium.

But it's lucky for Solomonov that Miznon — the first U.S. outpost of a small, beloved international chain started by the Israeli celebrity chef Eyal Shani, which opened a few months ago, also in Chelsea Market — doesn't offer hummus, because when it comes to pita primacy Dizengoff has been knocked off the podium.

Montesquieu and de Tocqueville would have been appalled.In this sort of joint enterprise defined in economic terms, French-led, highly centralised and run from the top down the primacy of individualism has been lost.