Word: paramounts
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Officially, Reagan Administration policy is that all four demands are inseparable. A U.S. aide said, "We're not prepared to assign priorities to them." In reality, however, it has been an article of faith among many in Washington that the demand for democracy is paramount. As a senior U.S. official in Managua put it in June, "Internal democracy solves all the other problems...if there isn't any, Nicaragua's threat to its Central American neighbors will not abate...
That, of course, is of paramount importance to both countries. While the Chinese dragon and the British lion have been warily circling each other, the world's third-largest financial center has responded to every shift in the bargaining like a sampan in a typhoon. As uncertainty over Hong Kong's future mounted, untold billions of dollars left the colony; foreign consulates have been flooded with visa applications from jittery locals, businessmen in particular. The value of the Hong Kong dollar fell 40% last year, as did the price of choice properties. The Hang Seng stock market index...
...Manager-To-Be Shelly Finkel, a rock-music producer, Breland's future has been plotted along these lines: a gold medal in Los Angeles, five or six lucrative years on the world boxing stage and a subsequent career in the movies. Reportedly, a threeyear, $2 million contract from Paramount Studios has been rejected. But the first trappings of wealth have arrived: cousins. "I have so many cousins these days, they ring the phone off the hook. Everybody's become my cousin...
...whole matter of embryos' rights is new territory," says George Annas, professor of legal medicine at Boston University. "There are no statutes on the books here or in Australia." Experts in both countries have suggested that the wishes of the parents should be paramount in determining the fate of leftover zygotes, and that these wishes should be put in writing. Unfortunately, it is too late for the Rioses to do so. Baffled officials at Queen Victoria hospital are therefore looking for guidance from a committee appointed in 1982 by the state of Victoria to study legal questions raised...
Three men stand out as Mondale's most serious vice-presidential prospects. None is widely known. If winning Texas is paramount, Senator Lloyd Bentsen Jr. would be the reliable bet. Bentsen, 63, is a tried-and-true organization man and very conservative for a Democrat: the liberal Americans for Democratic Action gives him a 40 rating, which is in the Republican range. Indeed, Bentsen's political differences with Mondale may be too big to gloss over gracefully. His views on U.S. policy in Central America-he has supported CIA aid for the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua and does...