The geoid is of paramount interest to oceanographers who study the causes of the "hills" and "valleys" on the sea surface.

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To be fair the exact version number of Android, while of paramount interest to developers and the geekerati, is not going to be the first thing that consumers are going to ask about.

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So too, like Israel, today Egypt views preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and weakening its Hizbullah and Hamas proxies as a paramount national interest.

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Has our view of responsible congressional oversight changed so profoundly that we can no longer openly and candidly debate an issue of paramount American interest?

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Now that the Fed is (hopefully) just months away from taking the printing presses off overtime, the paramount question is how fast interest rates will climb.

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The consumer interest is and should be paramount: if that means lower profits for publishers of college textbooks so be it.

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After the 2007-09 Recession, the stimulus packages supported by low interest rate tier 1 lending, tax breaks and initiatives were paramount to save the economies from total collapse.

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