Edmund L. Jenkins, the chairman of the accounting standards board, said in an interview that political factors were not paramount in the decision.
In other countries, such as the United States, where defense considerations were not paramount, civilian organizations e.g., the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Ocean Service (originally Survey)—were assigned responsibility for domestic mapping tasks.
Each of the chiefs in turn expressed the opinion that MacArthur's relief was desirable from a "military point of view," but they recognized that military considerations were not paramount.
"We as a society are cleaning up our Vietnam experience to make it more palatable". That, he fears, may blur what he considers the chief mistake of the conflict--getting involved militarily in a country where U.S. interests were not paramount.
Yes, numerous people businesses are indeed "knowledge businesses". But many others are low-valued-added operations for example, hotel management companies where employees' intellectual contribution isn't paramount.
So when people say models are so stupid, I tend to think: if you were a 17 year old speaking a second language and from a place where education wasn't paramount, it's unlikely you'd know how to speak to the media, either".
But these concerns just aren't paramount in the minds of profit-oriented executives.
A bank that finds itself approaching insolvency is supposed to go to the regulators first, and the problems are meant to be dealt with quickly and quietly by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Transparency isn't paramount; sometimes, says Klausner, it's considered a detriment.
One can't look at Sottsass's work and think that color wasn't paramount to his project.
He's a computer whiz, obviously, though his social circle is confined to a few other computer geeks with whom social niceties aren't paramount.
