Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well-muscled too fall victim to the exclusionary rules, quick to turn away the many yearning to eat free. For if beneficence is paramount before 6:15, afterwards, the Houses themselves are yearning to be Adams...
...belong to Carolyn Farb. ex-wife of a Houston real estate tycoon, who has devoted six rooms to the care and storage of her $750,000-plus wardrobe. Among Hollywood closet queens, Zsa Zsa Gabor probably reigns supreme with a system that "many people say is bigger than Paramount's wardrobe department." Charlotte Ford hired New York Expert Mario Buatta to design her new closet with printed fabric resembling Matisse motifs, but she still hangs an overflow elsewhere in the apartment. In another Buatta supercloset. Author Hannah Pakula has installed a chaise longue, an exercise machine and several other...
Geraigery, who also serves on the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Commission, agrees that the issue of housing is paramount. "We've been getting shafted all along--so far there have been lots of promises, but no housing built...
...what amounts to a personality cult. Last week's riots, however, suggest that he cannot depend on such unquestioning adulation in the future. "The kids in the streets are too young to remember Bourguiba as the hero of independence," says a foreign analyst. "For them, he is the paramount symbol of the status quo, and they can curse him one day and cheer him the next." As the time approaches when Bourguiba will have to pass his power to a successor, Tunisia's stability may depend on the regime's success in satisfying that new and volatile...
...people. Wisely, it was agreed that all three categories should be regarded only in context and as being of equal value. Security matters, taken on their own, offer too little chance of success. The same applies to an isolated policy concerning the free movement of people. Cooperation is of paramount importance. If we succeed in extending, step by step, cooperation in the fields of science, food, ecology, transportation, economics, energy and development policy, then arms control and even free movement of people will ultimately come into the range of what is possible. However, if we refuse to cooperate with...