Word: paramounts
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...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...
...simply disappear. Neither, will Israel, nor presumably, will the common hatred of Israel. Whether out of the need for an external enemy for internal unity, or out of revanchist motivations, it is safe to assume that Israel will remain an object of enmity. Israel's security needs logically become paramount...
...that China was willing to try to break the Taiwan deadlock. Clearly, in the vital interests of both nations, they must do so. As Richard Nixon, reflecting on his finest hour, wrote last week in the New York Times, "The bottom line is that both sides must recognize the paramount importance of preserving the new relationship. Neither of us can allow anything, including differences over Taiwan, to jeopardize this...