Word: paramounts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...above all, Anderson understands the link between foreign and domestic problems. His proposal of a 50-cent gas tax coupled with a cut in Social Security taxes indicates both intelligence and a desire to come to grips with the paramount issues of inflation and dependence on foreign...
...money went to build better roads, dormitories, communication systems and, not just incidentally, ski slopes, bobsled runs and skating rinks. Because of the tragedy at Munich in 1972, where eleven Israeli competitors and coaches died in the wake of an attack by Palestinian terrorists, security has been a paramount consideration. That meant building an Olympic Village seven miles from Lake Placid, accessible to vehicles only via a narrow forest road and surrounded by double chain-link fences 12 ft. high that send out an alarm at the slightest touch. With its narrow-windowed dormitories, the village bears an unfortunate resemblance...
When Carter decided to intervene in this enormous agricultural machine, Treasury Secretary G. William Miller was vacationing in the Bahamas, and nobody summoned him back home. "The economics of this thing were simply not paramount in anyone's mind," says one White House economist. Observes another Carter aide: "I really think the President is tired of economists theorizing about what the U.S. can and cannot...
...miraculously, the third week saw a 30% gain over the sagging second and the fourth a 26% jump above that. In its first 26 days, Star Trek brought in a total of $53 million. By ordinary standards, it is a blockbuster. But it went far over budget, finally costing Paramount Pictures more than $50 million to produce and promote; thus the film will have to gross between $75 million and $100 million before the studio makes its money back...
While bullion buffs have been ringing up spectacular profits, Dallas Megamillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, 53, should have been quietly humming Silver Threads Among the Gold. As the nation's paramount silver hoarder. Hunt and at least one brother, William Herbert Hunt, have amassed a new Comstock Lode. Over the past nine months they have earned an estimated $2 billion to $4 billion, and one former business associate sets the Hunts' silver holdings at 100 million oz. Even for a man who could play Monopoly with real money, the silver boom is stunning...