Word: paramount
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...entire legal system rests on the idea that individual rights are paramount. Every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty and every individual is treated as precisely that--an individual, not a member of a group. To deny this truth is to reject the fundamental democratic principle that the law was created to treat people equally...
...planned to depart at 60, NBC Chairman Grant Tinker asked that his successor be chosen from among the ranks of the network's current management. Last week it appeared that Tinker's wish would not be granted. Word began leaking that General Electric Chairman John Welch, whose desires became paramount at NBC after his electronics giant bought RCA, NBC's parent company, for $6.28 billion last December, had settled on his own man for the job. This week Welch is expected to name Robert Wright, 43, the president of GE Financial Services, to become NBC's new chairman...
Forget about how much Paramount Pictures is congratulating itself on managing to get together all the ingredients for a blockbuster. Go see Heartburn not because it is one of the best movies you will ever see, but because it is one of the most realistic...
China's Communist Party turned 65 last week, but it was not an altogether happy birthday. The celebration came in the midst of a heated debate among party factions over the progress of the reforms launched under Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, 81, to introduce free enterprise into his nation's economy. In the Chinese press, the openness and variety of criticisms leveled at the party over the past two months have been breathtaking. "The only area that is effectively barred from discussion," said one Western diplomat, "is the party's right to rule...
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