Word: paramount
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Students themselves should work to lower the cost of Senior Week activities. Elected Class Committee members sponsor Senior Week events and work with the Alumni and Alumnae Associations to plan them. These students should plan all Senior Week activities with a paramount concern for making them inclusive and accessible to all seniors...
Chamorro demonstrated diplomatic agility with the Sandinistas as well. In negotiating the transfer of power, the outgoing government's paramount concern was maintaining the integrity of the Sandinista army, considered to be the guarantor of Nicaragua's revolutionary progress. Chamorro worked out an agreement whereby the army will not be disbanded, but her government can reduce its size and determine how it can be used. She faced down demands that Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, Daniel's brother, keep his post as army commander...
...University needs to recognize undergraduate education as a paramount responsibility instead of a peripheral obligation to which only minimal attention is offered. Accordingly, the quality of graduate education will also suffer as Harvard produces an entire generation of academics adept at theorizing and producing mountains of research, but unable to convey it all effectively to the next generation...
...immediate future, the paramount concern for both Washington and Moscow will be monitoring compliance with arms-control agreements. By the end of the year the U.S. and the Soviets will most likely sign five arms agreements, including a new START treaty. All will probably require permanent on-site monitoring of U.S. and Soviet defense facilities, providing many potential listening posts from which to observe and steal classified data from either Soviet military researchers or American defense contractors. With perhaps two dozen START sites involved, in contrast to the one site each called for in the 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces...
...Hecht was lounging between careers -- he had written seven novels and two Broadway plays and was now dead broke -- when in 1926 he received a telegram from his pal Herman J. Mankiewicz, then a Hollywood scriptwriter. "Will you accept three hundred per week to work for Paramount Pictures?" the wire read. "The three hundred is peanuts. Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots." Then a mock-wily P.S.: "Don't let this get around...