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"It accuses the US of refusing to recognise the primacy of international law, reserving the right to use the death penalty against juveniles and of being the only country, apart from Somalia, to have failed to ratify the UN convention on the rights of the child," the paper said.
The State Department retained primacy until the 1960s, when the Kennedy and Johnson administrations turned instead to Robert McNamara's Defense Department, where a mini-state department was created to analyze foreign policy issues.
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's statements to the contrary--that the euro would threaten the primacy of "the king dollar."
In a 1995 encyclical, John Paul II broached the possibility that, in the interests of Christian unity, he or his successors might "find a way of exercising the [papal] primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation."
They interpret the "next generation" strategy, Gates' assignment to it, and his adversarial references to AOL as a belated concession that AOL was right about the primacy of the Internet, Microsoft was wrong about the primacy of the PC, and Microsoft now has to play catch-up.