Word: paramount
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...guidelines set down in the article make two major points, according to Federman. First, the patient's role in the decision-making about treatment should be paramount, and second, doctors should not continue "aggressive treatment" when it would only prolong "a difficult and uncomfortable process of dying...
...Western democracy was too soft, too decadent to defend itself. This delusion on the part of undemocratic governments has been, and remains, the greatest danger to peace in this century. The cacophonous self-criticism of the democracies and the unwavering insistence of their people that peace must be the paramount goal of their elected governments are signs of great strength, but autocrats persist in mistaking them for signs of weakness. The British demonstrated that a free people have not only kept a sinewy grip on the values they seem to take for granted but are willing to fight for them...
Like the war whoops and thundering hoofbeats that always preceded the Indians in old westerns, Paramount's new hit musical Footloose was heard well before it was seen. The title song, performed by Kenny Loggins, was sent to radio stations six weeks before the movie opened. A second single from the movie, Shalamar's Dancing in the Sheets, was released three weeks later, and a third, Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for Hero, a week after that. The sound-track album and a promotional video also came out weeks before the movie. When the film itself finally...
...been problems with Silvers' article, their criticism was irresponsible and destructive to a far greater extent than the impact of those students who have failed to take a position on Harvard's investments in South Africa. I can only question their motives. Surely Harvard's divestment is no longer paramount among their goals or such comments would have been made in a constructive rather than divisive manner...
Unfortunately, in Paramount Pictures soon-to-be-released film Racing With the Moon, neither element is prominent enough to carry the film to a successful climax. The movie's script suffers from a predictable, cliche-ridden plot line that becomes readily apparent in the first 15 minutes--so much so, in fact, that the audience finds itself anticipating the characters' actions well in advance of their execution. And though some of the performances are surprisingly quite professional in spite of most of the actors youth and limited experience, the performers with few exceptions fail to transcend their stereotyped role...