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Amending the U.S. Constitution usually takes years. It is rarely done. As Chief Justice John Marshall said, the Constitution should be "a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means." When one is working in marble, it is not wise to doodle, or use the chisel impulsively. But precisely because the chances of succeeding with an amendment are remote, there has always been something satisfyingly theatrical and essentially safe about proposing amendments to enshrine various panaceas, transcendent gripes, noble urges and crackpot illuminations. The process is a little like the custom of nominating obscure favorite sons at political conventions, not because...
REAGAN has made his economic initiatives paramount to all others, even to his anti-Soviet strategies, as the resumption of the wheat sales attest. European leaders ask how Reagan dares ask them to cancel the pipeline, a central element of their economic recovery plans, when he has shown different priorities back home...
...million). Of the early summer hits, none ran up a tab of more than $20 million. Star Trek II, which has matched its predecessor's early torrid pace, was made for $11 million, one-fourth the cost of the original; the sequel returned its production cost to Paramount within ten days of release...
...Council turned down a formal request from the Gay Students Association (GSA) that it criticize Edward I. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences. "Mr. Pattullo's right of free speech is paramount in this matter," the council said in a prepared statement...
While the military confrontation was paramount, much of last week's action was diplomatic. The day of the South Georgia assault, Argentine Foreign Minister Costa Méndez had been scheduled to meet with Haig to discuss U.S. proposals for a peaceful solution to the crisis. They included 1) an Argentine withdrawal from the islands and pullback of the British fleet; 2) an end to economic sanctions against Argentina imposed by Britain's supporters; 3) establishment of an interim U.S.-British-Argentine authority for the Falklands while the two disputing countries negotiate ultimate sovereignty over the territory...