Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spite of their wealth of talent, the going certainly won't be a walk in the park. The volleyballers face a difficult schedule which includes formidable opponents such as Princeton and Rutgers Newark, th premier threat of the season...
Thornburg says he fears that the Boston Churchof Christ may file a first amendment lawsuitagainst Boston University or Harvard. "My sense isthat they're setting up several of us, and Harvardwould be the best one [for a lawsuit]," Thornburgsays. "Harvard is our premier institution, that'sthe place you target first," he says...
Given the size of the two signs, undergraduates may not realize that lying just behind the building where they play basketball and shoot pool is the main entrance to one of the premier astrophysics centers in the world...
...that can be as fickle as it is brutal. Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic has had no fewer than six heirs apparent, not one of whom held that position for more than five years. Deng's earlier choices for succession, Party Secretary Hu Yaobang and Premier Zhao Ziyang, were both unceremoniously dumped when conservatives deemed them overly tolerant of liberal ideas...
Durable Li Peng, 66, the widely disliked and authoritarian Premier, may be the least favored of Deng's lieutenants, but he has extensive ties to party bureaucrats and the conservative older generation. He continues to display an amazing talent for survival, weathering near universal vilification for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, which Deng backed but Li implemented. He also seems to have recovered from a heart attack last year to resume a front- rank position. Yet if Tiananmen is re-evaluated after Deng dies -- as it almost certainly will be -- the blame may fall...