Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tight concentric circles around the pole. They prayed for Maize's students, for its principal, for Bill Clinton. Blake Langhofer prayed "that history is made here." That seemed a safe bet: for 45 min. before the start of classes, he and his friends turned their public high school's paramount symbol of the state into a church; and as dawn broke around the country, hundreds of thousands of other students were doing the same...
Although the Secret Service is charged with protecting foreign dignitaries, the wishes of the leader in question are usually paramount...
...pulled up to the 1,300-seat Paramount Theater, where the main event was held, a sign at the box office read SOLD OUT. Later we heard that tickets had actually been scalped out front. Inside, all previous scores and rankings have been dropped. Everything now depends on which poems the judges like tonight. We draw first up; it's disappointing, but we're confident. We wait through the band and featured poets. (During the slam, a slam veteran, Patricia Smith, the columnist who was forced to resign from the Boston Globe for fabricating stories, had brought an audience...
...lance mogul and former chief of the Fox network has long been the topic of one of the TV industry's most popular guessing games: What will Barry do next? Since leaving Fox in 1992, Diller has dabbled in home shopping, proselytized for the digital revolution, failed to buy Paramount and, last February, succeeded in acquiring the majority of Universal's TV operations. Despite persistent rumors that he is in the market for a major network, such as CBS, Diller says he is more interested in fashioning his latest collection of TV properties--including the USA cable network...
...expect to pay that amount. But it does mean that, as Deputy Secretary of Education Mike Smith says, "the resources are there." You need to find them, and you need to plan. "No matter how old your child is," says American Express's Satovsky, "saving for college is paramount...