Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EVER strike you as funny that liberals on campus are called liberals. One would assume that liberals would be ardent supporters of liberalism--that they would think individual rights and freedoms are paramount values, that they would fight for the rights of people to freely express themselves, and above all else, that they would be tolerant of other opinions...
...test ban. But many in the Administration, led by Perle, maintain that even on-site monitoring offers little promise. "There's no way a few inspectors can police the whole Soviet Union," Perle says. For these hard-liners, the need to stay ahead of Moscow's modernization program is paramount. Concedes Perle: "I'm opposed to a comprehensive test ban even if it were verifiable...
...unpropitious sign. When China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping appeared at a lunar New Year's celebration in early February, his right eye, which is often half closed, drooped shut completely. Then the 81-year-old Deng, who had just returned from six weeks in seclusion, again disappeared from public view. Anxious Chinese citizens and China watchers began to fear that his health had taken a serious turn for the worse...
...bases become paramount in our policy, I assure you we will lose those bases [by alienating the Filipino people]," Kerry said...
FIVE DAYS SHORT of the 432nd anniversary of Lady Jane Grey's death Paramount Pictures begins its limited release of Lady Jane, a two and a half-hour historical epic featuring a slightly embellished version of the events surrounding the girl-queen's life and death. Brimming with Renaissance cantatas sung by an invisible chorus, elegantly outfitted noble lords and ladies, broad, sweeping shots of the glorious English countryside, meticulously reconstructed regal interiors and a heavy dose of iconographical pageantry, Lady Jane would seem more at home in the context of such decade-old films...