Word: paramount
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...raise an insistent question: Can the system they are erecting still be called Marxist? It is far more than a matter of semantics. Marxism has demonstrated dramatic power to shake the world, and thus any debate as to what it does and does not consist of is of paramount importance...
...politician. He broke the long, frozen silence between the nuclear superpowers by agreeing to meet President Ronald Reagan in Geneva for the first Soviet-American summit in six years. Their November talks in front of a cozy fire moved none of the substantive issues closer to solution. On the paramount question of arms control, though both have proposed a 50% cut in offensive nuclear weapons, agreement is still being blocked primarily by Reagan's insistence on continuing his Strategic Defense Initiative and Gorbachev's vehement demand that it be abandoned. It was notable, however, that despite Gorbachev's pre-summit...
...Chairman of the party, but I told them I was too old for that," Deng recently told a TIME-sponsored Newstour. "Then people wanted me to take the post of President, and I said no, I wouldn't do that." The Chinese press refers to him simply as "paramount leader." But that modesty is hardly for lack of a life that has been interesting, both in the usual sense of the word or in that of the old curse ("May you live in interesting times...
...economic freedoms allowed in Shenzhen have turned it into a go-go city where money is paramount. The police arrested more than 500 beggars last year, some of them adults who organized and dispatched children to panhandle at the city's railway station. The town's most popular pastime seems to be currency juggling, with the Hong Kong dollar selling up to double the official rate...
...Alive" contained the best advice I've read in years. As a frequent business and personal traveler, I found the information on how to survive a fire or a wreck to be of paramount importance. I passed it around the office for my co-workers to read. Judy Corona-Karpowiczu Woolwich Township, New Jersey...