Word: paramount
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...shroud of mysticism, the Greek physicians replaced it with the thesis that the causes and cures of every disease are not only quite natural but also discoverable through the careful study of each patient. Thus curiosity, keenness of observation and the value of scrupulous record keeping became paramount priorities in the new philosophy of care. And as knowledge grew and was shared within the guild, the experience of a single physician became the experience...
...healer who is demonstrating her art. The man opposite her, a Westerner named Paul Alan Cox, is no ordinary student. He is a botany professor and dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a world specialist in medicinal plants and, far from least in this exotic setting, the paramount chief of the nearby village of Falealupo. To people here, he is known as Nafanua, in honor of a legendary Samoan warrior goddess who once saved the village from oppression and protected its forests...
Even though this sharp turn toward free enterprise, seven months after the death of paramount reformer Deng Xiaoping, had been rumored for weeks, it was still greeted with wonder. "It's breathtaking," said Charles W. Freeman Jr., a former U.S. diplomat. "Nothing on that scale has ever been attempted." Others saw the change as a risky move. "Jiang is doing what Deng did not dare do," says a Chinese political analyst in Beijing. "He's putting the bankrupt state sector on the block even at the risk of social instability...
...Kennedy but just in the movies, you are also fair game--although the stars tend to fight back. George Clooney urged a boycott of Paramount Pictures TV shows because of their use of video paparazzi footage of him and his girlfriend. Alec Baldwin scuffled with a photographer who confronted his wife Kim Basinger and their newborn daughter as they came home from the hospital. Robert De Niro, Will Smith and Woody Harrelson have all fought with the shooters...
...Russia's incomparable piano-poet; in Moscow. Virtually self-taught until age 21, Richter treated the piano like a soul mate, listening for the romance of Schumann or the fury of Beethoven. Perhaps he could not match Horowitz's brilliance or Rubinstein's panache, but showmanship was never paramount to him. "I don't consider the public," he told TIME. "My only interest is my approaching encounter with the composer...