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Producers are not happy with these demands, and while they are worried that quality will become secondary to economics, many feel they don't have a choice. Says Paramount Network Television president Garry Hart: "If a network is going to put the bar at one level for shows they have ownership in and another level for those they don't, we have real concerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Networks: Our Ball, Our Rules, Our Deal | 5/24/1998 | See Source »

Because medical schools rely heavily on MCAT scores for admissions, performing well on the test is of paramount importance to many premeds, and aspiring medical students often spend months preparing for the exam...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: MCAT Question Mix-Up Affects 2,200 Students | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

...licensees. As the focus now shifts from a consensus on the need to do something about sweatshops in principle, to the methods for translating these principles into better conditions for workers in reality, we should carefully consider the various implications that any regulations adopted might have. Of paramount importance should be the consideration that our pursuit of fair labor principle does not unintentionally make workers worse off. We can illustrate the many quandaries of developing world labor practices by considering perhaps the most vulnerable workers in sector of society, child laborers...

Author: By Ali Ahsan, | Title: Rethinking Child Labor | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

Criticizing Washington's refusal to punish China for its record of human rights violations, he said trade has supplanted liberty as America's paramount value...

Author: By David F. Browne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Family Research Council President Outlines Views at IOP | 4/14/1998 | See Source »

...various studios are being held back. "Why would we want to upset Spielberg?" asks an exec from Universal, which owns rights to Jaws but won't release it for fear of alienating the man responsible for many of the studio's greatest hits. Spielberg isn't the only holdout. Paramount and Fox have also steered clear of DVD, while Disney has yet to commit any animated classics to the format. It isn't the first time major content providers have resisted new technology: Capitol-EMI refused to put out any Beatles titles during the early years of the compact-disc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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