Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disorderly debut of the home-video version of Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Disgruntled shopkeepers claimed that some stores belonging to such giant chains as K mart, Wal-Mart and Waldenbooks had taken an unfair lead on competitors by putting the popularly priced ($29.95) Paramount blockbuster on sale as much as a week before its official release date. The chain stores denied purposely jumping the start, but irate competitors consider the episode just another example of the cutthroat tactics that are sweeping the home-video business (estimated 1986 sales: $7.2 billion...
...speech received close attention in Washington. Since World War II the U.S. has been the Pacific's paramount power, and since 1980 the Pacific Rim has superseded Western Europe as America's most important overseas trading partner. The Vladivostok speech showed that the Soviets intend to claim a share of Asia's economic success. Some analysts also heard an implied threat to U.S. military supremacy in the region. Says Rick Fisher of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington: "The Soviet goal in Asia is power...
...England writers will read selections...that expose the horrors of war, affirm the value of life, and address the paramount issue of peace in a nuclear age," said Mazur...
Ever since squealing, swooning teenage girls at Manhattan's Paramount Theater gave him his first fame in the early '40s, Sinatra, now 70, has swaggered about the world like a quattrocento tyrant, kissing the rings of bigshots and gangsters, throwing tantrums, shoving women around, and bloodying ordinary citizens who failed to grovel sufficiently. His messes have been cleaned up by bodyguards, lawyers and flacks, using money, the borrowed reputations of the influential and Sinatra's own powers of retaliation...
...China's Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping and East European leaders like Honecker have their own agendas to promote. The East bloc nations face serious balance-of-trade problems that lucrative new commercial agreements with the Chinese could help to correct. The Chinese, for their part, produce an enormous quantity of consumer items, particularly textiles and simple manufactured goods like thermos bottles that they would like to barter for East European machine tools and other basic products needed to equip their burgeoning rural industries. China's primitive manufacturing concerns can neither afford nor fully exploit the benefits of advanced Western technology...