Word: paramount
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Specifically, I do not feel that undergraduate or graduate students have given sufficient thought to such paramount questions as what the national policy towards foreign investment should be and how far open should the door of the American market be held. If our markets are open to others, but theirs are not equally open to us, what should our government or citizens acting collectively...
...commercial upbraids consumers: "We're tired of taking your crap! If we fold, you'll have no damn phones!" A Porsche ad promises male owners instant sex. And a United Airlines spot boasts, "Most of our passengers get there alive!" In the new Paramount film, Crazy People, the advertising copywriter who pens these lines is committed to an insane asylum. Since this is Hollywood, though, the writer, played by Dudley Moore, soon becomes the hottest property on Madison Avenue and falls in love with Daryl Hannah...
...Paramount added zing to the tale by using the names of real companies, but ABC and CBS have declined to run some commercials for the film because they include fake ads that might upset major network advertisers. Paramount pleads that the movie is a comedy. Starting this week, moviegoers can make that judgment for themselves...
...increasingly noisy drumbeats from Washington have created fear that the bilateral relationship is faltering. "There is a great deal of concern about the outright hostility in Washington that exists against Japan," says Sam Nakagama, a Manhattan economist. "Americans don't seem to care about this, but it is paramount in Japan." Trade negotiators reached an agreement last week to allow Japanese universities and government agencies to import U.S. supercomputers. But the two sides have made little progress so far in related talks over satellites and lumber products...
...Morgan dodge the slump? While the firm handled a sizable share of leveraged buyouts and issued $14 billion in junk bonds during the late 1980s, the company chose its deals with care. (Morgan did come up short in one notable fight, however, when it assisted Paramount Communications in its failed $12.2 billion hostile bid for Time Inc. last year on the eve of the company's planned merger with Warner Communications.) Under Chairman S. Parker Gilbert, 56, the stepson of co-founder Harold Stanley, and President Richard Fisher, 53, Morgan hedged its bets by diversifying into many different fields rather...