Word: paramount
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...these stock grants. In 1989 the average annual return on investment at 38 large companies offering all three types of stock awards (including Bristol-Myers, Sara Lee, Unisys and Allied Signal) was 11.3%. But at 215 companies that offered only two kinds of treats (including Morgan Stanley and Paramount), the return was 12.7%, and firms offering only one (Disney and United Airlines) yielded 14.2%. Companies that offered none of these so-called incentives (Reebok and Leslie Fay) enjoyed the highest returns...
...security interest is paramount at a time like this, but at other times it's not so paramount, and one begins to talk about civil liberties and so forth...
...wide esteem in London's business community. He is robustly satirized, however, by the leftish Private Eye in the comic strip Captain Bob. Among his fiercest critics are former employees. One claims Maxwell is so manipulative that he scheduled simultaneous lunches with former Secretary of State George Shultz and Paramount studio owner Martin Davis in different rooms at the same restaurant, shuttling between them on the pretext of taking business calls...
According to Casey, it is of paramount importance for lobbyists to establish personal relationships with their contacts in the government so that "when they know they're contemplating something...that might have an impact on you, they'll think to give you a call...
...conformity is paramount. It's all about the crushing of independent thought, the silencing of dissent. Inquiry is viewed as disruptived and or insensitive...