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Word: paramount (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better bring your toothbrush because we keep our word." That word means jail for the second serious offense. Explains Turner: "Rather than simply emphasize the needs of the child, we also figure we have a paramount duty to protect society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YOUTH CRIME PLAGUE | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...well as his leadership in lobbying for tighter controls over nuclear proliferation. Pérez applauded Carter's stand on human rights, saying, "Many years have passed since small and weak nations heard a voice rise from a great nation to tell the world that human values are paramount." In the 43-min. toast that Pérez delivered at the state dinner, he struck one of his favorite themes: improving the dialogue between the developed and the developing countries. Later, Pérez had a post-midnight talk with Carter. "They like each other." explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Oil and Abrazos in Washington | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...money from Rocky, which has grossed more than $100 million, Network ($30 million), The Pink Panther-Strikes Again ($40 million) and Woody Allen's Annie Hall, which took in $14 million in only seven weeks. Competitors are openly envious. Sighs Charles Bluhdorn, chairman of Gulf + Western, which operates Paramount Pictures: "I saw the first 15 minutes of Rocky, and I said, 'Why the hell didn't we make that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STOCK MARKET: The Star Wars Explosion | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

Bluhdorn is hoping to repeat the success of The Godfather with one of the dozen or so movies that Paramount will introduce this year: Orca, the saga of a killer whale, produced by Dino de Laurentiis, or Looking for Mr. Goodbar, a Richard Brooks adaptation of the best-selling novel. Columbia is putting its big bets on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another science adventure epic, and The Deep, a successor to Jaws, which is the highest-grossing motion picture of all time (MCA's count of the worldwide gross: $196 million). A rash of copycat productions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STOCK MARKET: The Star Wars Explosion | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...bluntly telling voters so. And an unusually alarmed electorate concurs. In the first public opinion poll of its kind, some 70% of voters voiced most concern about jobs, inflation and prices; only 2.3% think the country's position about the civil war in neighboring Northern Ireland is the paramount issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Rake's Progress | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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