Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tjibaou declared that his party would be content with nothing less than complete sovereignty. The caldoches continue to argue that the Pisani plan would lead to a Kanak takeover. Pisani declared a state of emergency throughout the territory, including a dawn-to-dusk curfew. In Paris, where Premier Laurent Fabius dispatched 1,000 fresh troops to New Caledonia, a political uproar was brewing. Right-wing opponents of President Francois Mitterrand's Socialist government joined the island's French community in denouncing the Pisani plan...
...testimony came none too soon for Poland's Communist government. Although Polish Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski has promised the trial will not be a whitewash, many Poles believe that the government will now be able to declare that justice has been served and that a widespread investigation is unnecessary. While Piotrowski's confession shielded the powerful, it increased the chance that he would receive the death sentence. He appeared ready and willing to drag Pietruszka down with...
Biographer Rhodes James' nomination of the Prince Consort as "perhaps the most astute and ambitious politician of his age" seems one compliment too far; Metternich was still active in the decade when Albert married Victoria, and Bismarck became Premier of Prussia in 1862, the year after Albert died. This Albert memorial serves mainly to persuade readers that, compared with most European royalty, the Prince was a giant. Alas, a giant among royalty is only man-size anywhere else...
Continental Illinois got into all of its trouble as a result of over-aggressive lending practices--policies approved and acclaimed by these bank directors. For years, Continental Illinois had been the pride of Chicago, a premier banking institution, a leader in world finance. Fortune ranked it among the top 10 banks in all measures of financial soundness, including profits, assets, equity, and deposits. But all of these positive factors tempted the bank's directors to become more lenient when granting loans to creditors of questionable financial soundness. Continental Illinois's purchase of sour energy loans from a failing Penn Square...
...house: "The U.S., with its strong recovery, its capacity for creating jobs, its enduring technological lead, has become the focus of fascination in the French economic world." At the same time, many French people have become disenchanted with the Soviets. Says Francois Lagrange, a senior counselor in the French Premier's office: "They cannot provide a high standard of living. They do not make marketable inventions. They cannot even make decent automobiles...