Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paramount among the collective leadership group is President and Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin. In spite of those titles, Jiang is viewed as a lightweight politician and possibly a short-term transition figure. An easy way to toughen up his unimpressive image is to stand up to the U.S. on trade. Jiang is unlikely to offer anything that could be read as a concession to Washington...
...PARAMOUNT NETWORK Rides runaway success of new Trek show to smashing debut...
...action. Here come Paramount and Warner...
...networks take on new roles, make new alliances and face new competitors like Paramount and Warner, the old verities may no longer hold. "I think we may well see more and more situations where stations are just buying blocks of time -- whether it be from the network or from one of these new networks or from somewhere else," says Richard Kostyra, head of Media First International, a Madison Avenue media-buying firm. "Right now the networks have an exclusive in certain time periods, but there's no reason why that couldn't open up. It's possible that we could...
...promoting Hardy's poetry above all else -- above the television adaptations, the novels that inspired them and all the unsubstantiated but unshakable rumors about the writer's romantic pursuits. (he was -- take your pick -- impotent, licentiously heterosexual or repressedly homosexual.) Hardy's life makes clear that his poetry was paramount. He trained initially as an architect, abandoned that profession for novel writing, then abandoned that one for verse writing...