Word: paramount
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...rally by Harvard Dining Services (HDS) workers outside the Faculty Club last week attempted to exploit alleged managerial misbehavior in order to influence upcoming contract renegotiations. The message of worker "abuse" was paramount; the ploy for increased wages was less apparent. While students must sympathize with any members of the HDS staff who has been mistreated by their boss, students should not believe the purported ills of the protesting labor force justify its contemporaneous demand for more money...
...vicious cycle has been set in motion. Parents who live through their kids produce children who grow up feeling they have missed out on childhood, a time when play, pure and simple, with all its lively, unstructured freedom, should be paramount. "If a child is totally immersed in ice skating, she may become Katarina Witt, but what did she lose?" says Wetter. "I see lots of adults in treatment who say, 'I never had a childhood. I wanted to be a doctor, so I spent all my time at the library doing a biology project, but I never played soccer...
...upcoming shows--from Fox's Melrose Place to this Thursday's entire NBC lineup--begin and end with the new Polaroid slogan, "See what develops," and the company's logo. Meanwhile, some of the world's largest advertisers are simply starting up their own sitcoms. In a partnership with Paramount TV, Procter & Gamble is now airing Home Court on NBC and, on CBS, Almost Perfect and Good Company. The latter show is set at an ad agency where copywriters spent most of one episode ridiculing a "toilet paper with baking soda"--a product actually sold by P&G rival Scott...
...Littlefield worked as a truck driver and foreman of a concrete-mixing crew before getting into TV. He joined NBC in comedy development in 1979, worked his way up and succeeded the charismatic Tartikoff as president of NBC Entertainment 12 years later when Tartikoff left to become chairman of Paramount Pictures...
Nevertheless, it is only through verbal chicanery and logical leaps that one can conclude that the sphere of privacy covers any private consensual act. If a woman's control over her body were paramount, then we could not explain restrictions against drug use, organ sales, prostitution and suicide...