Word: paramount
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Fond of movies, she first invested in Hollywood studios, including Universal and Paramount, and kept a tally of their attendance rates. She also bought stock in about 100 blue chips and large franchise corporations, such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, and drug companies like Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough. Her investments grew quickly, says William Fay, her stockbroker for 25 years. "After World War II, stocks really took off. While $5,000 sounds like a nominal amount, it could have increased fivefold in five years," says Fay, who retired from Merrill Lynch two years ago. At Scheiber's death...
...Sachs is going to give us an opportunity to step beyond the boundaries, we're far more desperate to find out why Harvard students heralded for their intelligence, diversity, creativity and talent are flocking toward firms where regardless of what their ads say, or what exactly they do, the paramount goal is to make money and embrace the rules of the game...
Perhaps we should face the possibility that many Harvard students, like the firms recruiting them, hold making money as the paramount goal. Again we realize that this description probably fits a portion of the senior class (and that high paying jobs may be especially attractive to those with the burden of large student loans), but we are unwilling to discard our naivete wholesale and ascribe greed and selfishness to the same students who have filled the ranks of PBHA service programs. We cannot be ignorant of their undeniable good fortune. One must wonder how it is that Harvard students...
...Mergermania is a fact of modern life," said Redstone, whose VIACOM International, Inc. recently merged with Paramount Pictures and Blockbuster Video. "There are advantages and disadvantages to mergers, but they are not simply about economics. They affect the core values of our life...
...need to reform the Core Curriculum through expansion of offerings or a new policy of distribution requirements is paramount. A student who graduates with a willingness to explore and a desire to engage her interest should be the end goal of the College's mission to prepare students for the "vigorous life of the mind"--a mission which seeks to yield students who leave Harvard not with regret but with satisfaction...