Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nutcracker plays to more than 100,000 people each Christmas and earns the company a fat $5.6 million. For regional theaters, A Christmas Carol is an even bigger cash cow. "It pays the bills for the rest of the season," says Lawrence Harbison of Samuel French Inc., the premier play- licensing house. The adaptation of Dickens' 1843 cautionary classic is by far the most widely produced play on the regional circuit...
...Atlanta? Auctioneers say the Southern capital and home of Ted Turner is the nation's premier market for the kind of flashy goods -- diamond-studded Rolexes, collectible autos and the like -- the U.S. appropriates from superspies and, far more frequently, drug dealers. TIME was given an exclusive preview of a small portion of the Ames collection. Highlights included...
...remain disturbed by the authors' attempt to make inferences about native cognitive ability on the basis of IQ scores, and was not convinced by their efforts to do the same. As I reiterated at the debate, I remain firmly committed to our government's responsibility to offer a premier education to all of our nation's youth, but I am an equally strong opponent of affirmative action programs which seek to "level the playing field" after the fact...
...Japanese, there is probably a lesson in all these debacles about not + getting stuck on labels. But for Americans, there is also a cautionary tale in drawing pompous conclusions about the nation's economic security when a few Japanese companies invest in premier American properties. When the Japanese did just that in the late 1980s, investment banker Felix Rohatyn wrote, "What is at stake is not only the loss of our position as the leader of the Western democracies, but the loss of our independence of action both in economic and in foreign policy." Turns out it was just about...
...person of tremendous integrity and knowledge and, as such, was a premier model of what a lawyer should be for generations of law students and lawyers across the country, and around the world...