Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time Chinese Vice Premier Zhu Rongji made his presence felt in the U.S. was back in 1985, when American Motors' high-profile, $24 million China investment, Beijing Jeep, was on the verge of collapse. Don St. Pierre, who headed the venture, appealed to a series of Beijing officials for help but got no response. Back in Detroit, where he had been summoned for a crisis conference, he suddenly received a telex from Zhu, then the obscure vice chairman of the State Economic Commission. "Please send a high-level delegation to China immediately, and we will solve this problem...
...some government ministries to buy Jeeps (now made by Chrysler), thus spurring production and injecting $250 million into the company. Zhu has been successfully tackling nettlesome economic problems ever since, and next week he is expected to get his reward: the National People's Congress will officially elect him Premier, the third most powerful post behind President (Jiang Zemin) and head of the National People's Congress (Li Peng will fill this...
...should students complain about the inadequacy of race and ethnic studies when we have the premier Afro-American studies and East Asian studies departments in the nation...
...plan had worked--and it came fearfully close--Nikita Khrushchev, the bellicose Premier of the Soviet Union, would in one mighty stroke have changed the power balance of the Cold War. Once again, a foreign dictator had seemingly misread the character of the U.S. and of a U.S. President. At Vienna and later, Khrushchev had sized up Kennedy as a weakling, given to strong talk and timorous action. The U.S. itself, he told Poet Robert Frost, was "too liberal to fight." Now, in the Caribbean, he intended to prove his point. And Berlin would surely come next...
...Rongji's job description when he is appointed premier during China's annual legislative session, which begins Thursday, may sound like cruel and unusual punishment, but Zhu's résumé might just be equal to the challenge. Credited with everything from taming inflation in three years to being the driving force behind Shanghai's economic miracle, Zhu is widely admired in the West as a whip-cracking manager open to innovation, and as a man of his word...