Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their last warm-up before next week's ECAC Championships, the major event of the fall season, the Harvard men's tennis team showcased all-around depth against premier national competition at the Fluitt Classic in Lexington, Kentucky...
...interest in foreign policy stemmed from a surprise visit to her home by Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev...
...weeks ago, Premier Zhu Rongji swore to former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills that there would be no devaluation "for at least two years." Hills was stunned. She says, "I told him that's very different from just saying, 'I'm not going to devalue.' I said I think investors would like to know that. And he said, 'Yes. You can say, Not within at least two years...
...Olympic-style, NIS-regulated, plaster squash courts on the first floor of the Murr Center makes this one of the premier NCAA squash facilities in the nation. The squash teams' new home is a major improvement from the 11 non-standard-sized squash courts at the Law School's Hemenway Gym. A prime view for spectators makes the feature matches come alive in the new seating gallery...
...Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, a former army chief turned politician, wasted billions propping up ailing finance companies owned by political cronies. When the currency crumbled under the pressure, he chose to throw good money after bad in a futile attempt to avoid a humiliating devaluation. Malaysia's cantankerous, 72-year-old Premier Mahathir Mohamad, strongman for 17 years, ran a one-man show with total control over the country's economic machinery. In his obsessive search for respect from the West, he spent lavishly to build the biggest and the tallest--the world's tallest skyscraper, the highest flagpole, the tallest control...