Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Controlled tourism" seemed the paramount concern for some councillors and residents at the meeting, and the emphasis was on the control...
...thundered over Mogadishu on a mission of retaliation for the killings, one week earlier, of 23 United Nations peacekeepers. For the next several hours, flares and tracer bullets lit the predawn skies of the Somali capital as the aircraft pummeled six sites of strategic importance to the country's paramount warlord, Mohammed Farrah Aidid. U.S. forces hit Aidid's radio station, four weapons and ammunitions dumps, and an abandoned cigarette factory that had been used to fire on the U.N. troops. At least 200 Somalis were detained, four died and 20 were wounded in the attack and subsequent street clashes...
...backlash. But there is a fundamental flaw in Hackney's reasoning, whose implications have colored difficulties on our own campus this year. It is a twofold error: a dangerous and incomplete definition of "diversity," and a failure to recognize that at a university, open expression is, and must be, paramount...
Getting booked on the Tonight Show is all about personality, a 15 minute long "mugging" session. A TV chat with the affable Leno has as its paramount goal making the politician look like the sort of person to whom "regular folks" could easily relate...
...William Baldwin. Then the steamy, voyeur-happy sex in the film threatens to + saddle it with a box-office-stifling NC-17 rating, and dozens of trims are made in the final cut to get an R rating. With extensive retooling going on, the buzz is downright dismal, and Paramount even declines to hold advance reviewers' screenings. In the midst of all this, he leaves his wife of 24 years and takes up with the wife of the co-producer, after the co-producer runs off with actress Stone...