Word: paramount
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...area of nontariff obstacles to commerce from border taxes to sanitary regulations. Also high on GATT's agenda are measures to encourage trade between developed and underdeveloped nations by means of special concessions. Long foresees a period ahead in which the problems of poorer countries will be "of paramount importance," and his main job will be to help stop the widening prosperity...
Little Room. The principal roadblock, apart from popular feeling against tax boosts and congressional reluctance to raise the rates in an election year, has been the fiscal conservatives' demand for a substantial cutback in federal expenditures. With military spending still going up and the needs of the cities paramount in the minds of most liberals, there seemed little room for maneuver, even with a projected budget of $186 billion and a possible deficit of $25 billion (on top of a $24.6 billion deficit projected for this year). Massive cuts, liberals believed, would gut too many socially oriented programs that...
...Paramount has put Vice President Robert Evans, 37, in charge of production. A reformed clothing manufacturer and failed actor, Bob Evans invaded the Hollywood hierarchy like a character from a '30s scenario. The co-founder of the fashion firm Evan-Picone, Evans was lounging by the pool of the Beverly Hills Hotel one day in 1956, when Norma Shearer gave him the eye; she just knew that he was the ideal man to play her late husband, Irving Thalberg, in a movie called The Man of a Thousand Faces. For three years Evans sleepwalked his way through the kind...
Greed's tempermental director Erich von Stroheim, known when acting as "the man you love to hate," consistently made films Paramount considered too long and too morbid. The Merry-Go-Round was taken away from him and completed by Rupert Julian (The Phantom of the Opera), and no one knows how much was shot by Stroheim; The Wedding March, originally almost four hours, was halved, the second half, Honey-moon, never released and probably non-existent...
Religion in a Technical Age, the last of Miller's seven books--a collection of essays in his paramount field of concern--has just been published by the Harvard University Press...