Word: paramount
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...Europe, France has shown remarkable resilience and political staying power. The existential debate has not deflected Mitterrand from his nouveau Gaullism, a policy of working with and through Germany to secure a decisive say over the Continent's future. In the E.C.'s halls of power France remains paramount, and relations with Washington, prickly at the best of times, are on a surer footing...
Some of the fundamental images of the American gallery of national icons have received a dramatic reworking. Gone, or going fast, is the concept of the melting pot, of the U.S. as the paramount place in the world where people came to shed their past in order to forge their future. Gone too is the emphasis on the twin ideals that form the basis of the American experiment: that rights reside in the individual rather than with social or ethnic classes and that all who come to these shores can be assimilated by an open society that transforms disparate peoples...
...deal irked some shareholders who held stock in Time Inc. when Paramount Communications made a failed bid for it in 1989. Time shares topped $182 then, but a year later fell as low as $66; before the rights plan was unveiled, they had climbed back to $120. "If you're a longtime Time Inc. shareholder, with this plan you've once again been moved to the back of the bus," complains Richard Reiss, managing partner of Cumberland Associates, an investment firm that holds Time Warner shares...
...meantime, the shortage of donors forces doctors to make wrenching decisions about who lives and who dies. Though medical considerations are paramount, subjective judgments often come into play. Can an uneducated patient handle the sometimes complex follow-up care required after surgery? Should a relative be approached and asked to give up a piece of himself? Should an alcoholic be granted a new liver? Such dilemmas can be far more complex than any challenge posed by the immune system...
...grossing pictures of 1990 would be Home Alone, Ghost, Pretty Woman and Dances with Wolves, you could now be running the major studio of your choice. If, like most everyone, you had put your money on megabudget action adventures, you could be Frank Mancuso, who doesn't run Paramount Pictures anymore. Starting this month, the movie industry puts its snazziest fashions on display. The only thing certain about the product is that there will be more of it -- 50 films, by one count, compared with 35 last summer. In forecasting the winners, moviegoers and moguls will have five questions...