Word: paramount
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Unfortunately for all those emerging from the Sever editing rooms any earlier, Bruegger's opens late--at 6:00. Simplicity is paramount there: a cinnamon raisin with butter and coffee (Harvard Square's best) is your best option. Nourishment and caffeine...
...staff's dismay leached into the final 74-page resolution. At one point, for example, the report cites a memorandum from an attorney who had managed Murdoch's initial FCC application, which states that Fox's ownership structure is "arguably vulnerable to challenge" and that it is therefore "paramount" to avoid any change that "would potentially invite re-examination" by the commission -- a memo known among commission staff members as the "somewhat smoking gun." The commission resolved that this memo "plainly indicates" uncertainty existed about the ownership structure but that otherwise it offered no proof of a deliberate campaign...
...Nuts and My Father, the Hero) were based on French films; so is Nine Months, a comedy about an expectant couple (Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore). The high grosses of three Michael Crichton novels-into-films in two years (Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure) had something to do with Paramount's decision to explore Congo...
...paramount concern remains the enormous gap in wealth and power between whites and blacks. Whites still control most of the principal institutions of South African society: the corporations, the banks, the stock exchange, the media and the civil service. While Mandela has urged a color-blind society and railed against "reverse racism," whites mutter about blacks taking jobs they are not qualified for. Whether blacks have the right curriculum vitae does not really matter: affirmative action in some form is imperative and inevitable. In South Africa, unlike in America, disenfranchised blacks make up the great majority of the population...
...been as elaborate as those of the empires that preceded them. So when Chen Yun died at 89 last Monday, the citizens of Beijing braced themselves for the usual run of lowered flags, martial music, and long paeans to his revolutionary contributions. After all, Chen ranked second only to Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping in China's pantheon of post-Mao leaders, and the two were often viewed as fierce rivals...