salient

Noticeable, clear to see; obvious. "In his letter, he claimed that he just wanted to say hello, but the more salient message to me was that he was lonely and badly needed a friend to talk to."

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Infrastructure deficits are only the most salient of the deficits the United States faces.
Source: COLUMN - America has multiple deficits: Lawrence Summers - Yahoo! News