Word: paramount
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...little to fear if he misbehaves. A loner, he has rarely if ever been told no -- probably because the few who tried to do so tended to wind up dead. So no one can be very sure what, if any, message will derail his ruthless drive to be the paramount power in the Persian Gulf. Fortunately, Saddam has few friends around the globe, and his truculence is knitting unlikely partners into a broad-based opposition...
...defense of Saudi Arabia is paramount,"White House spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater saidyesterday. It is, he added, "clearly in thenational interest to stop [Iraqi President] SaddamHussein...
...stand a chance if we don't get any aid from our friends," a dismayed Ambassador Saud Nasser Al-Sabah told reporters. "U.S. intervention at this stage is of paramount importance...
...That paramount question of our times underlies a new biography by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson, who served in Moscow for the Washington Post and the London Sunday Times respectively. They have produced a compelling study of the mysterious, almost biological process by which power is accumulated in the Soviet system and of the figure who has most notably mastered this...
...that Simpson and Bruckheimer have a contract with Paramount guaranteeing them millions of dollars no matter what they produce (or how well it does at the box office), they have the kind of creative freedom to at least attempt to produce tenable films. Instead they chose to produce a movie which indulges the boyhood fantasies of Simpson and Cruise, both amateur race car drivers...